Ban Internet Explorer

A survey asking the question - which do you prefer: Internet Explorer or Firefox?

Should prob add Safari to that list when it stops being beta 3.0, its abit buggy on P.C atm but no-doubt it will be great when its sorted.

Help me become top fox in the official Facebook Firefox group by downloading Firefox 2.0 from this link:

If we needed more proof of the problems with IE, i've just fixed a bug involving approving contacts when people are using the browser. It now works in both browsers.

Some excerpts from the Mozilla Firefox wikipedia page:

"Forbes.com called Firefox the best browser in a 2004 commentary piece. PC World named Firefox the "product of the year" in 2005 on their "100 Best Products of 2005" list. After the release of Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, PC World reviewed both and announced that Firefox was the better browser. Which? Magazine named Firefox its Best Buy web browser."

"..as of February 12, 2007 Firefox has been downloaded over 300 million times."

"Firefox provides an environment for web developers in which they can use built-in tools or extensions. These include the built-in JavaScript Console and the DOM Inspector."

For the full article please visit the Mozilla Firefox Wikipedia Page.

A very informative article about why you should stop using Internet Explorer and choose a different, more secure, standards compliant browser:

Why you should dump Internet Explorer

Update: This article was posted in June 2004 based on the browser versions available at the time. Even so, despite all the updates that Microsoft have made to Internet Explorer since then, the points made in this article are still valid. It makes you wonder, if Microsoft have had 3 years to fix the problems - what have they been doing with their time?!

Some excerpts from the Internet Explorer wikipedia page:

"Much criticism of Internet Explorer is related to concerns about security: Much of the spyware, adware, and computer viruses across the Internet are made possible by exploitable bugs and flaws in the security architecture of Internet Explorer..."

"the browser often uses proprietary extensions to achieve similar functionality."

"[Internet Explorer] has numerous implementation gaps and conformance failures—some minor, some not—that have led to criticism from an increasing number of developers. The increase is attributable, in large part, to the fact that competing browsers that offer relatively thorough, standards-compliant implementations are becoming more widely used."

"Internet Explorer's ubiquity, in spite of its inferiority in this area, frustrates developers who want to write standards-compliant, cross-browser code and the advanced functionality it provides, because they are often stuck coding pages around Internet Explorer's bugs, proprietary featureset, and missing standards support instead."

"Internet Explorer is often criticized for being technically obsolete. These include supporting fewer CSS, HTML, and DOM features than Firefox or Opera and not having native XHTML support."

For the full article please visit the Internet Explorer Wikipedia page

This is a lovely little clip:

Here is a link to the current web browser usage statistics where we can keep track of our progress!

W3C Browser Usage Statistics.