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I BROKE IT WITH THE AWESOME POWER OF MY IRE!

I STAB IE WITH MY STABBY KNIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought you used firefox? Or mozilla or something like that?

Yes, I sue Firefox.

I, however, am also a web designer and thus have to make pages that work in IE and IE's implementation of CSS is BROOOOOOOOOKEN.

Ah okay. I thought maybe there was something wrong with an IE update and you were getting stupid emails from people.

No, just a general existential cry of internet angst.

I feel your pain. I think IE has done more to contribute to the eventual heat death of the universe than anything else ever.

Well, okay, except for spammers.

I would sentence all spammers to work in the browser mines of Argonath, condemned to producing complex four-column dynamic layouts in IE using only CSS.

Remind me never to get on your bad side, ma'am.

ie sucks. use firefox. *glowers*

Unfortunately I am not in a position to mandate that the 8K students and 2K faculty and staff of the university all switch to Firefox, and as library webmaster I am forced to ensure that the pages I design actually work on IE.

Oh, hell, I can't even convince my IT people to install Firefox. Their argument: "Well, we've spent a lot of time securing IE." Me: "So... you've wasted a lot of time on a browser that isn't secure, and you don't want to try one that is? Bzuh?"

What this means is that my designs not only have to work in IE, but must look perfect in it, because that's how everyone in the building will see it.

*headdesk*

If I could only go to each and every person in the library and demonstrate the awesomeness of tabbed browsing, I believe in my heart of hearts that most of them would make the switch to Firefox. There will still be many who don't want to change, because OH GOD IT'S SOMETHING NEW *panic* *flail*, but I cherish the small hope that they'd see the utility of tabs.

For the longest time, the whole 'OMG SOMETHING NEW TO GET USED TO AND AUGH I GOTTA SET IT UP AND AUGH' was what kept me from Firefox. That, and I tried it really early on, and it didn't impress me enough to migrate over from the exploding rock I had secured in the river that is OMGINTERNETS.

However, I then tried it again when a forum I frequent got attacked by some nasty hackers that they couldn't shake off until they updated their software. Tab browsing, I believe, is want will bring peace into the world. Tabbed browsing is like that John Lennon song where people just get together and live in harmony.

.... Anyway. I still have to keep exploder around, however, because there's still a few webpages I frequent that, for some odd reason, get screwed up in Firefox.

...the exploding rock I had secured in the river...

That sounds like it should be one of the elimination rounds on Takeshi's Castle :D

Oh yes, there's always webpages that only work in IE that you have to use - shopping carts, etc.

My boss saw me using tabs in Camino and said, "I have to have that!" I said, "You can't."

I hope IE7 gets here soon.

Tabbed browsing and it being the first browser to support popup blocking is what sold me on Mozilla back in the day. Whilst I was no longer in school, the hubby flew through so many research projects, thanks to those lovely tabs (hell, I have a whole list of bookmarks set to open in tabs on a daily basis.... *sigh*)

But yes...if only the rest of the world could drop IEvil, life as a webdesigner would be grand.

I believe Opera was first to have a popup blocking feature. Probably the first to have tabbed browsing, though it was not the first application to support a tabbed interface.

I still prefer Opera. Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to get web developers to fix bugs in their code that Opera "incorrectly" handles. It's worse when webmasters don't detect Mozilla or IE and automatically turn off access to their site, which probably works 99% just fine in Opera, anyway.

Bleh.

Heh, my mistake. :D I haven't ever used Opera, and don't think I heard about it until after I'd already been introduced to Mozilla. Though yes, I'd have to agree that it is rather annoying when webmasters turn off access to their site. (At that point though, I'm not sure it's worth wanting to see their site :D)

duh.

Or as my techy friends call it, "Internet Exploder".

I switched to firefox ages ago and enjoy it lots, but this old computer doesn't seem to like it much for some reason so I am forced to use IE. In fact I'm writing this right now in IE! *Taints your LJ with the ebilness*

I know someone else who does web design mcgubbins and had a problem not so long ago trying to reconcile IE 6 with some random something or other containing floaty whatevers that every other browser in existence seemed to view properly except for IE 6 (in essence he wanted to match an image on a side bar thing to a header image, but IE didn't want to know and kept leaving a significant gap between them). Whilst I'm sure you didn't care about any of that, I'm just saying I kind of understand your pain. Or something...