On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 17:02 -0500, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Sunday 19 November 2006 12:30, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > It still irks me that they will force you to use one browser, to the
> > exclusion of all others, and in my view the worse one of them all, the one
> > that looks like a dead cow to a sky full of buzzards (viruses etc) the
> > moment you start it. So that means if you are using Windows but run Firefox
> > or Opera to avoid the IE viruses, you are screwed regardless.
>
> Quite. Makes you want to scream sometimes... Hello!!? Wakeup!!
>
> It's the height of ignorance to operate as if only one browser was in use.
> I also think it's plain stupid and arrogant to think all are happy to use one
> specific browser. Probably some idiot project manager.
>
Or, and this really gets my goat, if it is due to poor programming.
Especially if IE ignores the error and works and FF or Opera or Lynx
etc. Are balking because they're supposed to balk. If the programmer is
using IE, the programmer probably is unaware and doesn't care about the
problem. Ugh. These frustrations lurk like a rake in the grass.
The Logan
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