tommasinino
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Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: “Please switch to Firefox / Safari”When we already have IE8 I really see no point why we should pay too much attention to IE6, especially when even Microsoft itself urges users to upgrade. A lot of the standards we can’t do away with now come at least partly from IE non-standards, iframe is an example. It’s just that when macromedia invented flash, we called it innovation, and when apple does anything we call it a miracle. (I know, it’s not entirely the same, but the consequence is no different – you can either view the contents with the suitable software, or you cannot)
but yeah, you’ve made my point. I might sound like a die-hard IE supporter, but I’m not. All I want to say is there are a lot of IE users and they are happy with their IE, so don’t force them to firefox or whatever using such tricks I described.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: “Please switch to Firefox / Safari”I must say your attitude is most gentle and positive, unfortunately I doubt how many of these developers I’m refering to actually share your view. First thing, the plugin I talk about is certainly not for personal use. Second, no one browser can claim to adhere 100% to the standards and renders everything correctly, but most of the time such differences are trivial. In cases where they matter, there are usually workarounds. If there’s a large market share for IE, and you code for other browsers instead of IE, it can hardly be called a non-personal preference. And hey, when Microsoft ships IE with Windows, do you say “You don’t have to use the OS, the OS author doesn’t have to make it work for your choice of browser. Those are the real choices here.”
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: “Please switch to Firefox / Safari”I’ve been coding in perl and php for many years but ie has been my fave since netscape. i never really liked firefox. i’d prefer chrome if i need a second choice. but that’s beside the point. hate it or love it, what browser the users use should be their own choice to make, why bother?
i commented out these two lines in the code, then everything actually works fine on ie, so why the stupid act?if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== false)) die('Please switch to Firefox / Safari');