When I rule the world...

[bunn]

it will be a crime punishable by extreme humiliation to use a web browser that is not the latest version, or to program, promote or use any web browser that is not absolutely standard in its rendering of HTML.

There are HUNDREDS of people out there using IE 5! IE 5! The bastards! Would it not, in the long run, be SO much more satisfying and productive to track them down and send assassins to give their computers a good kicking, so they have to either do without or buy a new one?

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[firin.livejournal.com]

I tried to upgrade to IE7 once, but, somewhat laughably, it turned out to be incompatible with something or other in the provision of IT services on campus, with the effect that my net services just wouldn't work at all. No network connections, no browser pages, no Skype to talk to Toryin, nothing.

They even sent a technician up to my campus room to check everything else, till we decided (and then proved) that it was the IE version to blame. I still don't know why, but I'm relatively blonde when it comes to computers. It wasn't a completely awful experience, as that technician's visit was responsible for my discovery that WoW, unlike EQ2, was _not_ blocked on campus; I therefore had a happier year after that point due to being able to game with Toryin while he was in the States.

I suppose I should try again to upgrade, but even with the WoW mitigation, the associated memory is of so much hassle and pain, that I'd really just rather not. *wince*