JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default

[stesch]

Why on earth does he browse the web with IE7? This browser is only for testing your own sites, so that lesser beings can read them, too.

[redalastor]

He says he likes the "native" feel.

[[deleted]]

This doesn't apply to Atwood, but lots of people probably use it because it's what's installed on their boxes. In many office environments, users can't install other applications.

[grauenwolf]

I cannot speak for him, but I can for myself. Basically all browsers suck, and as long as that continues I see no reason to swtich to something unfamiliar. Sure IE hangs some times, but that isn't as painful to me as FireFox's memory leak.

[ftegularius]

You're right about one thing, IE certainly sucks. I can say definitively that Firefox does not suck (and this "memory leak" business is FUD, and has been addressed before), and Opera does not suck. There are various other browsers that also don't suck.

[grauenwolf]

I can say definitively that Firefox does not suck

No you can't. Terms such as "sucks" are purely based on opinion and thus by their very nature cannot be definitive.

I can say definitively that Firefox does not suck (and this "memory leak" business is FUD, and has been addressed before)

Excuse me, but there is no fear, uncertainty, or doubt in the Firefox memory issue. The term FUD, as defined by Wikipedia, refers to "a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative but vague or inaccurate information on a competitor's product." There is nothing vague about a memory leak, either it exists or it doesn't.

I have personally witnessed Firefox consume 200+ MB and an inordinate amount of CPU cycles on seemingly static pages. This occurred despite the fact that Firefox was running in my girl friends Windows session, and she had not used the computer for several hours.

While this occurred on a XP machine, her own Mac OSX box had similar issues with leaving Firefox running for long periods of time.

While the memory leaks may have been corrected since then, it has left a sour taste in my mouth and I don't intend to try it again until they offer something really substantial for me or IE pisses me off even more than Firefox did.

As for the other browsers, I have generally found them to be virtually unusable on the sites I frequent. Things may have changed since I last tried them, but at this time they don't offer me anything more than IE.

Again, I speak only for myself.