You will not like what I do to you if I catch you enabling automatic updates on my machine.
I greatly dislike things popping up and running in the middle of when I am working. I manually update the OS, anti-virus, anti-spyware and several other programs at least daily but only when I want it to happen.
> Opportunist (166417) wrote:
>...But even after SP2 I've seen many machines that had their auto update
> deliberately turned OFF and I once earned myself a veritable hysteric
> breakdown, including something close to a murder threat when I only
> attempted to turn it back on.
"I'm sick of hacking my website to be IE-compatible... ...I don't care what browser will have the most market share, as long as it's not IE..."
There is a name for those people who visit your site while using IE. They are called your customers. You sounds as if you do not care about your customers. We all know how well an attitude like that has worked for companies over the years.
Some people don't use Firefox because they already have IE and it works. Others don't use Firefox because of how it works.
They might not like how it does things like - no "Stop" button on the toolbar -a mandatory search control toolbar - the kind of "browser helper" thing people have been told contain spyware (anyone remember "Gator"?). (if they wanted a Google, Yahoo or other search toolbar, they would have downloaded and installed one) -they want to view page source in an editor and not in a dumbed down browser window.
As to conforming to standards compare the rendering of the left column (width: 22ex;) on this site when viewed with IE versus with Firefox. http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/programg.htm
Many use IE so know it works. They normally prefer to not fix what they feel is not broken. If your web site is one of the rare ones that does not work with IE, they are more likely to decide the site is broken than that to download and use some other browser.
If you want to promote Firefox then tell people compelling reasons why it is better for them and not some "Microsoft is the evil empire with all that money and we socialists object to that" type of drivel.
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You will not like what I do to you if I catch you enabling automatic updates on my machine. I greatly dislike things popping up and running in the middle of when I am working. I manually update the OS, anti-virus, anti-spyware and several other programs at least daily but only when I want it to happen. > Opportunist (166417) wrote: > ...But even after SP2 I've seen many machines that had their auto update
> deliberately turned OFF and I once earned myself a veritable hysteric
> breakdown, including something close to a murder threat when I only
> attempted to turn it back on.
"I'm sick of hacking my website to be IE-compatible...
...I don't care what browser will have the most market share,
as long as it's not IE..."
There is a name for those people who visit your site while using IE. They are called your customers. You sounds as if you do not care about your customers. We all know how well an attitude like that has worked for companies over the years.
Some people don't use Firefox because they already have IE and it works. Others don't use Firefox because of how it works.
They might not like how it does things like
- no "Stop" button on the toolbar
-a mandatory search control toolbar - the kind of "browser helper" thing people have been told contain spyware (anyone remember "Gator"?). (if they wanted a Google, Yahoo or other search toolbar, they would have downloaded and installed one)
-they want to view page source in an editor and not in a dumbed down browser window.
As to conforming to standards compare the rendering of the left column (width: 22ex;) on this site when viewed with IE versus with Firefox.
http://home.nc.rr.com/emulroy/programg.htm
Many use IE so know it works. They normally prefer to not fix what they feel is not broken. If your web site is one of the rare ones that does not work with IE, they are more likely to decide the site is broken than that to download and use some other browser.
If you want to promote Firefox then tell people compelling reasons why it is better for them
and not some "Microsoft is the evil empire with all that money and we socialists object to that" type of drivel.
. Ed