Internet Explorer bug

[MrGaribaldi]

An interesting "story" from The Register about a mum who switched to Opera...

It also points out how most people look at their browser i.e. "hunting for the 'e'"...

 

[Arris]

I've been using Opera for sometime now and keep finding myself trying to use mouse gestures everytime I have to use IE!

I just bought Opera to get rid of the adverts. To be honest I'm more than happy to give money to the people providing this piece of software. Its a joy to use.

 

[Elros]

I agree, I have been using Opera for years. Mainly because it provides me with the same browser when I am in windows or linux (I know Mozilla does this too, but I think MOzilla is slower at the moment - although it is much better than Netscape 7).

I develop web apps for a living, and most are developed for a min spec of IE5.5. This is not chosen for the features, but because most people have it pre-installed. This leads to problems in that programmers get lazy, and instead of looking for a better design/solution to get the code to conform to w3c, they use the microsoft defined crap to get it to look fancy quickly. This really annoys me, since it is destroying the market for other browsers/OSs.
They are even modifying XML in such a way, that it will soon be an MSXML and XML... which ruins every thing from Palm OS up to Linux/Mac and every other non-MS app.
Its a shame for the industry really.