Thursday, 11 August 2005
IE7 fulfills expectations
Posted under: Browser
I only manage to use IE until the 6th version. After blogging for nearly 4 months now I have fully used Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6. My impression on IE was that it’s not a good browser. I am guessing that what make it so bad is that it doesn’t support CSS. The CSS I wrote didn’t show or differ from what I had in mind. So when I read Barry Price’s article, I see the title that IE7 fulfills expectations. In a bad way I assume. And I think the word of Barry Price said it all
Disappointed, but hardly surprised. IE’s market share has dropped by maybe 10% overall in the past few years since the emergence of
PhoenixFirebirdFirefox, but unfortunately I suspect that even given the next apparently bug-ridden release of IE, it’ll still maintain a vast majority share - thus stifling innovation and thwarting the adoption of standards in web development. This is why monopolies are bad folks - good technology suffers, to the benefit of “popular” bad technology…
Coming from a country that filled with many monopoly companies, I must agree with you Barry. Monopolies are bad.
Indeed, I guess I should have clarified that it fulfilled *my* (very low) expectations
Comment by Barry Price — August 12, 2005 @ 8:33 am
When it comes to IE, I guess I have the same quite (if not very) low expectations. But if you work on web-design you cannot avoid IE since, as you said, most people in the world are still using IE. All they have to do is try other browsers and they won’t be back. At least it worked for me
Comment by Eric — August 12, 2005 @ 9:06 am