ARGGG!!! Darn you IE!!!!

[rueyeet]

Alright, now I'm just p!@#$% off. What's the point in making a website unaccessible like that for no other reason than just doing it. I could understand it if IE6 does something that others won't, but come. Is this just a big FU to everybody who doesn't use Windows?

It's a result of Microsoft's usual, euphemistically named "Embrace and Extend" strategy, which means Embrace someone else's technology, Extend it with Microsoft-proprietary technology, and use your hideously large user base to coerce everyone else to use and/or license your changes.

I think the problem also lies in the Microsoft certification farms. They take in people with no real understanding of computers or technology, and teach them all Microsoft stuff. When those people are hired into IT, Micrososft is all they know, and they honestly believe that non-Microsoft technologies are unreliable and incompatible. That's where you get the web designers who really think IE is the bee's knees, and that their sites really are "best viewed" with the latest version of IE.

Add that to the argument that other browsers constitute so little of the market as to be vanishingly insignificant, and you've got an idea why so many sites pull that "IE only" crap, even when it's not necessary.

Man, I'm in a rant-y mood today.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Any Safari only sites?

 

[siliconjones]

I live in Texas. I'd like it blown off the map . Can someone arrange that pleasseee!!!

 

[trampaslake]

Hmmm... that's interesting. I'm just glad there's a way around it. Viewing the page, I mean.

As to blowing Texas off the map, I must agree. I constantly find myself re-evaluating exactly why I stay here. Hmmmmm.

But, if you do blow it off the map. Please give me a heads up.

 

[hikeNM]

Good to know!

Yet another site with an IE requirement that has no justification.

Edit: what's annoying is that hikeNM's parents will blame Apple, not the Texas DOT.

Really, my parents wouldn't know the difference between an Apple or a Commodore(?) 64. To them it's just a "computer" that wouldn't work. But all is well now. No worries.

Yes, trampaslake and hikeNM are the same person.