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Verisign Sues ICANN Over SiteFinder
camusflage writes "Yahoo's running a story about VeriSign suing ICANN for holding up Sitefinder. Choice quote from VeriSign: 'This brazen attempt by ICANN to assume 'regulatory power' over VeriSign's business is a serious abuse of ICANN's technical coordination function.'"
1) Considering like a huge majority of sites designers never bother debugging their sites for any other browser, the messed up way IE interprets many sites is the way the designers intended them to be viewed. Considering that IE or browsers that disguise themselves as IE has more than 90% of the browser traffic, so to most debugging their site on other browsers seems pointless.
2) At work I'm stuck with whatever is installed on my work station. Not everyone works somewhere they get to install whatever software they want on your workstations.
Staying away IE for me is harder than it seems for the following reasons:
1) What happens if your company's web portal uses Active X controls, such as Citrix Metaframe server. This is almost a standard for remote access for large enterprises.
2) Majority of plug-ins are designed for IE
3) There exists many internet sites that are broken. This is because people have designed their sites to render on IE, so people write broken code to run on a broken browser.
4) I don't have admin or power user privillages on computers I use at work, and it is easier for me to use IE than go through a whole chain of people to get another browser installed.
I'm merely saying my opinion, that Verisign site finder is a blessing to many people like myself. There is no need to try to make it seem like I know nothing about alternative browsers. I use alternative browsers at home, but occasionally I'm forced to use IE and in all it's buggyness and annoyances, and site finder makes it better.
So what you're saying is that the mods will score it "informative"?
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