Daniel’s Blog

Internet Explorer 6 has a lot of bugs, luckily a lot of the rendering, css and other standardised code bugs that were in IE6 have been fixed (see here). Good right?

However, the Design Detector Blog says “It looks like IE7 is going to be almost as buggy”. It is well known that other browsers are much better at rendering, so I am asking all readers (if they haven’t already) to convert to one of the following:

• Firefox by Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
• Mozilla Suite by Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
• (Mac users?: ) Camino by Mozilla: http://www.caminobrowser.org/
• (Beta testers?: ) SeaMonkey by Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
• Opera Browser by Opera Software: http://www.opera.com/ (Mobile Version also available)
• (Mac Users that like using proprietary software? (I haven’t tested this): ) OmniWeb by the Omni Group: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/
• (Web developers?: ) Amaya by the W3C: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
• (Blogger or Web 2.0 user?: ) Flock by Flock, inc: http://www.flock.com/
• (Mac users look out for: ) WebKit: http://webkit.org/

The reason for really wanting people to move away from IE, is because of the rendering problems. Its a real pain in the neck having to deal with its rendering problems specifically and they happen even when I stick 100% to standards. I don’t like haven’t to put non-standard code into my website just to handle IE bugs… it makes files bigger and it has an affect on you users too!

So please please please convert to one of the browsers discussed above (most have builds for Windows, Mac or Linux - and Opera has builds for mobiles phones!). Not only will this make web developers lives easier, but you will be safe in the knowledge that you are seeing everything how it is supposed to be and standardised websites are quicker to download and render (that is a fact!).

(but if you really really really have to use IE, then do upgrade to IE7 when its released as at least it will be slightly more modern)

All websites developed by Vanir Systems are created on an Apple iBook with OS X 10.4, and pages are created using TextWrangler and are alpha tested using Safari 2.0.4, Flock 0.7.4.1 and Mozilla 1.7.13. All websites are then beta tested on other operating systems, and other browsers (including IE6 on Windows). But if you do see any rendering errors on our pages then let me know!

Daniel

Technorati Tags: webstandards, internetexplorer, bugs, ie7, ie6, webdevelopment, mozilla, firefox