Of course it'd still run viruses. Can you imagine the kind of anti-trust allegations that would be thrown at Microsoft if suddenly nobody needed anti-virus? lol.
I think that webmasters generally force Internet Explorer (Corporation Webmasters) for a few reasons:
1) IE, admittedly, still has the larger User Base
2) They were taught in school (instead of self-taught) and know what school taught; MICROSOFT
3) Active-X and WMV.
Unfortunately, until Microsoft uses only Standards-Compliant rendering, things like this will continue. Personally, I think Active-X should be Open-Source (and available for Opera and FF) and that IE should render Standards-Compliant (and nothing else) just so that webmasters would either have to learn standards, or the company would not make any money at all.
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Of course it'd still run viruses. Can you imagine the kind of anti-trust allegations that would be thrown at Microsoft if suddenly nobody needed anti-virus? lol.
I think that webmasters generally force Internet Explorer (Corporation Webmasters) for a few reasons: 1) IE, admittedly, still has the larger User Base 2) They were taught in school (instead of self-taught) and know what school taught; MICROSOFT 3) Active-X and WMV. Unfortunately, until Microsoft uses only Standards-Compliant rendering, things like this will continue. Personally, I think Active-X should be Open-Source (and available for Opera and FF) and that IE should render Standards-Compliant (and nothing else) just so that webmasters would either have to learn standards, or the company would not make any money at all.