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[LazyLion]

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse190m/10su/ie.shtml

University of Washington
Computer Science & Engineering
CSE 190 M: Web Programming, Summer 2010

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Why won't you allow me to view the course web site in IE?

I originally posted a lengthy explanation about why I disapprove of Internet Explorer, but I was asked to remove it. If you are curious, you can read it on my personal (non-UW) web site at martystepp.com. Please note that any content posted on martystepp.com reflects the personal opinions of Marty Stepp and not of UW or the CSE Department.

Figures a lecturer in Web Programming would tell you not to use IE!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

 

[ponder]

I like this guy

 

[psheldon]

I love it!!! especially seeing that a lot of SA sites program for IE only.

 

[Venomous]

:twisted:

 

[Avenue]

fantastic, we need more people like this around

 

[stroebs]

Death to IE

 

[Bismuth]

Hey, they see the light!

B

 

[Drake2007]

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage - so now how am I supposed to take this "lecturer" seriously when his own domain is down?

 

[Synaesthesia]

Bit silly IMO. I say let IE render it, errors and all. Anyway it's IE 6 that gives the most headaches to developers. 7 not so much. IE 9 is actually a technically impressive browser.

 

[hath80]

lol~~~~

 

[bekdik]

So your web sites are going to block 100,000,000 potential users? Great business m odel. After his course you'll be in great demand.

 

[Lounger]

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage - so now how am I supposed to take this "lecturer" seriously when his own domain is down?

It isn't down if you use Safari.

I think this was his first lesson and some of you failed

 

[ponder]

So your web sites are going to block 100,000,000 potential users? Great business m odel. After his course you'll be in great demand.

If you used standards based code no one will be blocked. I think you missed the whole point.

 

[Jagtiger]

Good one.

Sadly, there are websites that force you to use IE:
"Sorry, you require to use Internet Explorer in order to access our website."

 

[stroebs]

Good one.

Sadly, there are websites that force you to use IE:
"Sorry, you require to use Internet Explorer in order to access our website."

At least in this case I can press this key combination: F6, CTRL+C, WIN+R, iexplore, F6, CTRL+V, ENTER.
Good thing every Windows PC has IE preinstalled... But what about Macs? And Linux?

 

[kingrob]

His web page renders very fast with Google Chrome 9 beta.

I'm itching to try Chrome 10 dev.

 

[ponder]

But what about Macs? And Linux?

Suppose you could try IE Tab plugin/addon/extension but that does not solve the root cause though.

 

[zamrg]

So your web sites are going to block 100,000,000 potential users? Great business m odel. After his course you'll be in great demand.

It's not actually such a big number. The target market for this course likely wouldn't be using IE so he's really excluding a very small %.