On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:39, Rob Kendrick wrote:
Am I unique in the Linux users world who pines of an IE for x86 Linux? Mozilla's all good and dandy, but it's /slow/ and in my experience, horribly unstable. IE by contrast is simple, and blindingly quick. It's actually a superb browser on balance, no matter what people say.
From a commercial stand point, not giving a toss how well IE renders a
website is a serious mistake. From a personal stand point, I think it's just blinkered advocacy for something else that I think everybody could do without.
Two words - "Tabbed browsing"
IE's interface/features haven't changed since 1995 and version 4.
Every time I go to a client site and am forced to use IE, I find it really annoying browsing without tabs and being forced to use the back button all the time.
IE on Linux is fine, but this Linux user wouldn't use it as his browser of choice...however, I do make sure that all my web-facing code works in IE as well as Safari, Mozilla, Konqueror, Opera, and Netscape (not 4 though). It's really not that hard once you know the little quirks of all the browsers and their various bugs.
Matt