Comments on: Bad IE http://mediasnackers.com/2008/12/bad-ie/ We inspire people to learn, work & live differently with social media. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:23:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Mark Mapstone http://mediasnackers.com/2008/12/bad-ie/#comment-2143 Mark Mapstone Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:57:14 +0000 http://mediasnackers.com/?p=3328#comment-2143 @ Matt: FireFox sounds like a good bet to me, and you're right, 0.02% is almost invisible. Most people will not have a problem. However IE is targeted by most viruses, so unless you are extra vigilant at keeping up on the tech news and software updates and virus software, then it might be a good idea to run FF on your machine as well. I run 3 browsers. IE <-- can't turn off, because msn messenger always jumps to it for hotmail. FireFox: which is great for debugging website builds (which I do a lot of) and Chrome for general everyday stuff and training, because it doesn't crash (within reason). Hope this helps - Mark @ Matt: FireFox sounds like a good bet to me, and you’re right, 0.02% is almost invisible. Most people will not have a problem. However IE is targeted by most viruses, so unless you are extra vigilant at keeping up on the tech news and software updates and virus software, then it might be a good idea to run FF on your machine as well. I run 3 browsers. IE <– can’t turn off, because msn messenger always jumps to it for hotmail. FireFox: which is great for debugging website builds (which I do a lot of) and Chrome for general everyday stuff and training, because it doesn’t crash (within reason). Hope this helps – Mark

]]> By: Kieran http://mediasnackers.com/2008/12/bad-ie/#comment-2142 Kieran Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:49:19 +0000 http://mediasnackers.com/?p=3328#comment-2142 To be honest rather than being a major concern for users this should be a wake up call to Microsoft. One of many wake up calls they have ignored. Whether they admit it or not they have a duty of care but sadly they normally hide behind their zero liability terms and conditions. However, we all run our businesses using these pieces of software and they are our window to "the cloud". Huge amounts of private and privileged data is communicated through their browsers every minute of every day. Sooner of later there is going to be a scandal like this that sees Microsoft in court and a court may not agree with Microsoft's claim of zero liability. K To be honest rather than being a major concern for users this should be a wake up call to Microsoft. One of many wake up calls they have ignored. Whether they admit it or not they have a duty of care but sadly they normally hide behind their zero liability terms and conditions. However, we all run our businesses using these pieces of software and they are our window to “the cloud”. Huge amounts of private and privileged data is communicated through their browsers every minute of every day. Sooner of later there is going to be a scandal like this that sees Microsoft in court and a court may not agree with Microsoft’s claim of zero liability.

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]]> By: Matt http://mediasnackers.com/2008/12/bad-ie/#comment-2141 Matt Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:05:56 +0000 http://mediasnackers.com/?p=3328#comment-2141 Mark, I tried to use Chrome recently and to be honest hated it as the usability was awful (couldnt type in to hotmail etc & viewed site wern't updated)so went back to IE. Personally I've never had an issue with IE but would be curious to know which you would reccomend as an alternative? The BBC article states 0.02% are risked so is that enough to wory about? I remember when they brought out the new £20 to be copy proof but then had to do it again as someone copied it. Basically, if people want to, there is always a way I guess? Mark,
I tried to use Chrome recently and to be honest hated it as the usability was awful (couldnt type in to hotmail etc & viewed site wern’t updated)so went back to IE.
Personally I’ve never had an issue with IE but would be curious to know which you would reccomend as an alternative?
The BBC article states 0.02% are risked so is that enough to wory about? I remember when they brought out the new £20 to be copy proof but then had to do it again as someone copied it. Basically, if people want to, there is always a way I guess?

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