Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott

Anonymous Cowherd writes "Paul Thurrott, a journalist that usually writes about all things Windows related (and sometimes about Apple affairs too), made a call in a recent article to boycott Internet Explorer, due to Microsoft's approach (continued in IE7) of not supporting web standards: 'My advice here is simple: Boycott Internet Explorer. It is a cancer on the Web, and must be stopped. IE is insecure and is not standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable for both end users and Web content creators... You can turn the tide by demanding better from Microsoft and using a better alternative Web browser. I recommend and use Mozilla Firefox, but Apple Safari (Mac only) and Opera 8 are both worth considering as well.'"

Ok with me

[tclark]

In fact, I think I'll take it a step further and boycott Windows as well.

Ok all you web designers out there ....

[scharkalvin]

Have your webpages check to see what browser the client is using, and if it is IE7 (or hey, ANY version of IE) refuse to render the page and pop up a link to Mozilla or Firefox and tell the user that his current browser is broken, and a plague on the web, and that he should follow the given link and download a REAL broswer if he (or she) wants to see your content. (turn around is fair play I say!)

Re:Ok with me

[richman555]

That works for me too, call it a "Halo" effect.

Acid2 test looks fine in IE7

[David Horn]

I just visited the Acid2 test page in the Internet Explorer 7 beta, and it looks exactly the same as it does in FireFox. Am I doing something wrong?

Re:Ok with me

[Anonymous Coward]

who spends money on microsoft products?

Re:Microsoft-free Fridays

[therodent]

Oh that would play out well out work.

Boss: "What happened to our friday numbers? We owe Audi 200,000 more impressions and we'll never make it"

Me: "Oh, that! It's the Microsoft-Free Fridays Apache module."

(grumbling and hushed tones)

Me: Didn't know you'd be such a d1ck about it. Okay, I'll get my things....

Re:Wine?

[HMC CS Major]

That works well for MS Office, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, etc...

Oh, wait, no - that doesn't work at all.

Re:Ok all you web designers out there ....

[xs650]

A fringe benfit would be that you could host your website on a serrver with very limited bandwidth.

Re:Wine?

[Ignominious Cow Herd]

You mis-spelled 'whine'.

Re:Ok all you web designers out there ....

[WormholeFiend]

You wouldn't happen to be this pretentious ass, would you? (hint: use IE to go to that site)

wow, IE sure uses a lot of bandwidth, eh

When in soviet redmond...

[splerdu]

standards comply to you!

Seriously, when you have as much marketshare as microsoft, forget the w3c -- you ARE the standard.

Re:Nobody cares

[Rinzai]

You're right. Like the rest of us don't work extra hard either. BFD, junior, welcome to the real world. How'd you get to be so special?

Firefox ain't done yet, pure and simple. There are a lot of things it just flat gets wrong, and if you haven't visited their bug list lately, you're missing a trip.

Opera is okay, but it's always going to be a marginal player.

Safari? Nogoodi. It's a Mac browser, and my religion forbids me to use Macs.

And as far as the Linux browsers go--well, if you're okay with some 12-year-old in Malaysia writing parts of your operating system, I suppose you'd be okay with the kid's 6-year-old cousin writing parts of your web browser.

I, on the other hand, am not.

Meanwhile, I just checked again and I still don't care how hard your job is. Get another job, ya stinkin' crybaby latte-suckin' black-wearing nose-pierced loser.

(Did I get those adjectives in the right order?)

Oh, one more thing--the W3C group isn't a law-enforcement agency. Compliance is interesting, but not required. Not only that, CSS is actually flawed in a fundamental way, so why would I trust the committee any further than I already have, eh?

Re:Ok all you web designers out there ....

[aeoo]

You know, I used to think exactly like you. But lately I am starting to question this "untouchable" dogma. Maybe the boss should appreciate it! Maybe the good that such action causes is worth the sacrifice. Maybe business should be willing to make less money if by doing so it can foster a friendlier environment for everyone? Maybe if your boss doesn't see the deep spiritual truth in this, maybe you and I should be brave enough to tell them to FSCK themselves? Boss may get angry and seek to vent that anger (such as by firing), but if enough of us are willing to stand firm, guess what? What will happen is that what "the boss" thinks will lose its all-important kingly arrogance.