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Most websites use what’s called a cascading style sheet (CSS) to determine the placement of text, font types, and other html markups. In particular a web designer will use this to tell your browser what font to display when you visit his or her website.

For reasons unknown to me, Microsoft has decided that they want to dictate the font you see when you go to a website. They use something they call ClearType and they claim that it makes web pages easier to read. After a user installs IE 7 there’s a prompt …read more »

As a rule I don’t use Internet Explorer; I use Firefox instead. The reasons for this are outside the scope of this article. I do, however, use IE for work-related stuff (it’s our company standard) when necessary and I use it when testing my website. One of the most annoying things about Internet Explorer is a nagging feature which reminds you that Microsoft feels your security setting are too lax. One of the main issues I have with this is that it appears to be all or nothing. If I let Microsoft choose my security settings then every damn time I try to open an image or zip file from a shared drive on my internal network I get a nag message forcing me to say “OK” before I open it. This is unacceptable since my internal network should be a trusted zone.

To get rid of the nag message every time I open a file from my network I …read more »

When Internet Explorer 7 came out a while back I first noticed that they’d finally gotten up to speed with many of the features Firefox had already introduced years ago. I still think IE sucks but that’s a personal opinion that I’ll save for another time. At least they finally decided to do a little work on this dog and try to keep it relevant.

It seems that Microsoft had now succeeded in keeping up with the Joneses …read more »

I’m not going to apologize for bashing IE but I won’t have to do it quite so much now that I’ve begun coding in php. Now I can check the browser you’re using and feed you html …read more »

Well, well, well. It looks as if Microsoft has decided to finally move into the year 2001 and offer tabbed browsing, something Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, and others have been doing …read more »

Maybe I was a little too strong in my criticism of using Internet Explorer. I was in the middle of a frustrating battle with IE and I’d had enough. I’m still mad, actually. Still, I suggest …read more »

Now that I’ve been trying to code CSS for both Internet Explorer and Firefox I now understand fully why Firefox is so much better than IE. IE is a piece of shit that Microsoft has no intention of fixing because 90% of the population uses it. Another example of monopolistic software quality decline. I finally decided after spending hours trying to work around bugs in the way Explorer handles CSS that it wasn’t worth …read more »