Comments on: Pushing Internet Explorer 7

By: User

User — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:16:47 +0000

Forget Internet Exploder. Download firefox. Period.

By: FABBIO

FABBIO — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:55:35 +0000

This is a bliss! eventually we can stop supporting that browser and stop polluting standard code with fixes just for the sake of it!
I don’t use it, but 76% of my user still do… and I cannot use transparent pngs (or at least need to add some silly fixes), use attribute selector, :hover on every element etc…

By: swruler

swruler — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:09:43 +0000

That’s why I got a Mac.

By: auschick

auschick — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:05 +0000

Actually, I’m glad that they are forcing people to upgrade to ie7 – the fewer people using IE6 out there, the less time i have to spend coding for it.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:21:17 +0000

I have moved to Ubuntu for the same reasons. I do not want my computer to do thinks I do not ask for. I am actually very happy to have dumped Widnows on my computer.

By: Christopher Parsons

Christopher Parsons — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:49:44 +0000

I read this blog regularly, and wanted to assuage some of your fears: what you're likely heard about the IE7 forced update has (unfortunately) been mixed with a lot of Internet FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). What is being affected is *not* Windows Update, but WSUS, which IT Admins use in tightly controlled business networks to push out updates on their users. This change will *only* affect admins who have previously installed an IE7 block that prevents IE7 from automatically being installed on corporate networks that use WSUS. For a bit more information, check out the following link: IE7 Auto Rollout Fact and Fiction.

By: adesigar

adesigar — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:43:58 +0000

Personally I have never had any problems (or heard of any problems) with any version of IE or any Microsoft product in the last 5-7 years. Automatically upgrading is one of the best things Microsoft does. Do you really want a bunch of novice users (and most users of PC’s are novice users) running computers with known security issues?

As for Firefox/Apple/Ubuntu they are all niche products. The majority of people around the world use Windows and IE. Anyone designing a website or application that has a wide audience should always do it with Windows and IE in mind and test if it works on Firefox/Apple/Ubuntu and not the other way around.

I also don’t get all the Microsoft bashing. I’m guessing you guys are all Apple users?

By: Keiron

Keiron — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:52:23 +0000

This doesn’t sound like a good idea at all – I ONLY load IE for testing purposes, preferring to stick to my trusty Firefox. I’d probably dump Windows altogether if linux got more friendly….. Could that happen this year??????

By: Alina Popescu

Alina Popescu — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:45:47 +0000

My new laptop came with Vista and IE7. That is why installing Firefox was one of the first things I did I had no major issues before, when intalling IE7 on XP, still, I dislike it and prefer Firefox. The next thing I did is getting my boyfriend to help me get Ubuntu installed on a different partition

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Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog » links for 2008-01-27 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:23:10 +0000

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