IE6 is the dumbest thing ever. period.
 

Last month I installed IE6 over the previous version (5.0 or 5.5), and every day since then I've regretted using it as my default browser :mad: and why?

It crashes everytime I load a shockwave/flash movie or install a shockwave plugin & sends an error report to microsoft :mad: :mad:

Italicized text is blurred, Encoding has to be changed suitably to make it readable :mad:

Uses only ONE default font for all web-pages, which is usually Verdana. Google's default font is Arial (on IE5 and below, Netscape and Opera), but when it applies large-sized Verdana font, Google looks ugly :mad:

I'm unable to save web-pages onto my hard-disk. Again, IE6 crashes when I'm saving the webpage & attempts to send an error report to MS :mad:

And the worst part of it all... you cannot revert back to good old IE5 - you will have to reinstall Windows :mad: :mad: :mad:

OK, enough bitching for now :D

Nah, I know there are several alternatives to IE.

I was just venting out my frustration & in a sense, warning other users about how bad it is :)

Hehe....I belive that there are about a million other threads just likke this one.....;)

As it happens Mozilla crashes when doing java and shockwave stuff. Now I use konquerer, just as good but with FAR better text display, much easier to read.

You see, IE sucks period. Saying that IE6 is bad compared to IE5 is like saying dog shit tastes worse than horse shit. You know, it doesn't really matter.

Moral of the story: Stop eating shit (also known as using IE).

http://www.opera.com/
http://www.mozilla.org/
http://www.linux.org/

I happen to like IE6. I've been using it since just after it was officially released, and I haven't really had any major problems with it. As a matter of fact, I don't remember the last time I had an instance of IE crash. I don't have any problems with shockwave things, or anything else for that matter. Maybe IE just doesn't like you. ;) :p

If that's the case... could you please give me a copy of your IE6? ;)

Meh. It works. It gets the job done. I use IE6, and it's given me no troubles.

My am agree with sgtfuzzbubble99 and White Raven.

I have no problems with it, except for an occasional crash, which is 99% of the time cause by my antivirus.

not for me...

My firefox 0.7 didn't have java, that was fixed in 0.8

ditto. I use myIE2, but they are the same thing :)

AGHHH!

I respect you all for various reasons.

BUT WHY ON MY GREEN EARTH WOULD YOU USE THE PIECE OF SHIT THAT IS IE!?

Because it works.

Yeah, sometimes. When it's not busy crashing, or taking 10 times longer to render a page, or...

Fuck it. If you're using IE, go ahead. Why don't you install a virus to make your computer slower, while you're at it?

Because Norton already does a good job at slowing down my computer. No sense in installing a virus to do that when the anti-virus program does it so well. :p

And IE doesn't take ten times longer to render a page, and it doesn't crash... at least not for me. If it does that for you, then sorry for you.

Have you tried Opera to see how much faster pages are rendered?

Not to mention tabbed browsing, more than two download "streams" so you don't have to wait as long for a page to load on broadband, etc...

Face it. IE sucks.

I don't like tabbed browsing.

Oh. Tough break, then.

yet again, myIE2 does it.

It doesn't replace the rendering engine - IE is still slower to render pages, and generally deviates from the W3C standards.

I don't have any problems with it.


I have yet to see a page load improperly in IE because of deviations from W3C standards.

I have, loads of times, ask idiot.

Its because of these deviations, thats why people are making pages that are "IE compatiable" simply because they believe Microsoft standards are the standards.

Same for me IE works and always has worked like a dream!
Sorry :rolleyes:

As sanosuke said, that's because people test for IE, and "fix" their pages to render in IE, deviating from the W3C standards.

Ok, so people write bad code. But IE still shows it as the author intended it to be shown. That has nothing to do with the people that write W3C-standard code. As far as I've seen, my IE has displayed every single W3C-certified site correctly... If your IE is displaying W3C-certified sites incorrectly, then I don't know what's wrong with yours.

every previous version of my page. the current version works because i restricted myself to the subset of the specs that it supports, which is quite a cutback. there's a lot of neato features on sites i've made that don't work on IE, too.

of course, you can make the same effects work on IE, you just have to replace nice, restrained CSS with stupid hackish blocks of javascript and other such silliness.

example of a good site that doesn't work: the sublime demonstration of the power of CSS that is CSS Zen Garden. The sidebar doesn't seem to appear on IE (for me).

That's because IE is craptastic, Old, out of date, riddled with major flaws, and slow. I hate that piece of shit with a passion. If it weren't for M$ forcing you yo use it for windows updates, I wouldn't use it at all. :igor:

I can't wait for Mozilla 1.7. The alpha is a huge improvement over 1.6.

I've seen more pages render incorrectly in IE, when they are going by the W3C standerds. :D

The point Zoot was trying to get across is that people write code, test it in IE, modify it to look correct, and then it dosen't work in other browsers (that follow the W3 guidelines.) (sometimes) (wow that's a lot of extra notes) (seriously).

And another example of awesome things you can do with CSS, that IE dosen't support is CSS menus.

See: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html

it works in ie for me, but not opera... >.<

there should be a column on the right hand side, which allows you to select alternate stylesheets. is it there in IE? doesn't show here.

most of the laternate stylesheets "kinda" work.

Hmm. All the stylesheets on that page that I saw render just about exactly the same in Opera as they do in IE for me.

All of those render just fine in IE for me. They loaded really quick, too... so what's the problem?

Opera renders them more quickly, of course, but I don't see any problem with that site and IE.

What's the big deal about a few microseconds anyway?

"A few microseconds"? Load up Microsoft.com. How long, from when you hit {ENTER}, to the page being fully rendered, does it take?

less than two seconds. so what?

(side note: it would prbly be faster if I turned off gaim and seti )