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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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I note this is, "When I rule the world," not, "If I ruled the world ... " ;-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I've mentioned that I have this ambition to grow up to be Dogbert, haven't I ...?

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

For a very long time the TS website had (basic) support for Netscape 4! I feel your pain.

Mind you, I refuse to upgrade IE to 7, because I don't like it. However, I only use IE 6 when the site refused to work on Firefox. (Which interestingly marks its own name as a spelling mistake! It suggests: "Firebox" or "fire fox" instead.)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I only use IE 6

You'll be up against the wall when the revolution comes...

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I think that the people who write sites that only work in IE6 should be up against the wall, regardless of whether the revolution has come or not.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

A long, long time ago, I had a spell checker which didn't like "actuarially", and suggested "catarrhally".

[bunn.livejournal.com]

At the moment I'm finding that if it works in IE7, it works in Firefox, and viceversa, on practically everything. Building something that doesn't work in (current versions of) Firefox, therefore, seems like the height of incompetence.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

A lot of microsoft.com only works on Microsoft browsers; Microsoft / Windows Update is (at least was) one. A few banking sites are like that. Some government sites are too. I can't recall exactly which ones off hand, if I have problems in Firefox I simply cut'n'paste the URL into IE6 and try again.

Classic FM's site seems to work better in IE than Firefox, and a few of the on-line radio sites don't work in Firefox: the media plug-in doesn't work in anything other than IE.


Building something that doesn't work in (current versions of) Firefox, therefore, seems like the height of incompetence.

I would agree.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

There are government sites that don't work in Firefox? That's just bizarre!

All the banks I use are firefoxy, though they usually don't like Opera, which annoys philmophlegm.

I just fired up the new site that caused me such grief in IE 6, in a newly installed copy of Safari 3, and it all worked without so much as a misplaced pixel. This makes me happy.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

There certainly used to be government sites that didn't work in Firefox, probably in the order of a year ago (or longer), though. I haven't visited many recently, so it all could have changed. Mind you I finally managed to get DVLA's renew-your-car-tax web site to work last month; I've tried it ever since it was launched and this year was the first time that it worked.

Barclays and CAF seem to work in Firefox. I must confess I've never used Opera. The evangelical nature of an ex-colleague always put me off.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

Now, I can look smug here, because even I have progressed beyond IE5 :)

[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*