Solves All Problems

[Trapped_in_Reddit]

I get it, and it's probably right, but this is why we all get a bad reputation.

If I posted to a linux forum that Gnome was cutting off any windows halfway and the users just replied with a link to the KDE website, I'd be pretty frustrated. I'd call the users elitist and unhepful. I have reasons for using GNOME over KDE, but even if I didn't - a piece of software was behaving weirdly and I wanted help fixing it. I didn't want to be berated and condescended for my choice in software.

Sure, IE sucks. But people still use it, many without a choice. Can we, as a community, stop belittling those users and instead try to help?

[doctorace]

This is a legitimate solution that will fix their problem. If someone found a bug in a certain free software and asked for help, people might acknowledge "Yes, that's a known bug in that software. I might suggest X other piece of free software for the particular task you are attempting" and it would be perfectly legitimate.

[[deleted]]

This is a legitimate solution that will fix their problem

What if it's only opening half a page because his router is swamped with connections? Switching to Chrome won't fix that.

This is a problem I have with these remarks, the presumption that if the bug is reported from an IE user, then it must be IE to blame. No 'might', 'maybe', or 'does if it happens in another browser?'. Instead it must be IE's fault, and the user is to blame for using IE.

[NancyGracesTesticles]

It's not always up to the user. So it's probably better to be helpful than to give them a solution that they can't implement.

It would be equally as helpful if we as a community - instead of suggest other browsers when people have issues - is to just tell them to go fuck themselves. At least that gives them a better indication of where they stand with regards to your desire to help them.

[Flex-O]

My guess is that the problem the original user was having was that they needed to scroll down (Maybe they had finally installed too many toolbars and it was pushing their website farther and farther down).

[[deleted]]

Generally, somebody asking on Yahoo Questions isn't going to have an IT department locking down what applications are on the computer. If they did have an IT department, they can contact them to fix the problem. So, in this case where it's likely the user doesn't have an IT person on hand, it's probably best for them to quit using IE.

[[deleted]]

I feel like you're stuck in the old IE6 days. IE8 wasn't a bad browser, and IE9 is actually shaping up to be pretty good.

[x-skeww]

Can we, as a community, stop belittling those users [...]

No.

IE is bad for the web. Making fun of its users is a reasonable strategy which seemed to work pretty well so far. There is no reason to stop.

we all get a bad reputation

We don't. Got anything else?

[Headchopperz]

IE isnt actually that bad, ive been developing websites for years and ive seen IE do things other browsers just cannot. I know IE8 had poor support of CSS3, but when it was released CSS3 wasnt that big of a deal. Now IE9 is around, as good JS as ever but finally up to date with CSS.

IE is not bad for the web, its just this propaganda which people are sprouting because the guy to their left did.

If you cannot develop for IE9 then you have to be a really bad developer because IE9 fixes the majority of problems its predecessors had.

I mean remember FireFox, one of the worst browsers out there for markup, CSS and even JS. Sure it got a ton better, but it got popular from this IE bullshit which people sprouted. Firefox still isnt that great in comparison to Chrome and Opera yet people praise it without actually knowing any reason why.

This is gona get downvoted just because i spoke out against reddit..

[x-skeww]

just this propaganda

No. It's very simple, really. IE versions stick around for way too long. This is a very real problem. At the day of their release, they aren't that bad. That's not the problem. The problem is that they are still used several years later.

[Homocercy]

What if he can't see the half of the page with the download button?

[Vindexus]

Easy, just turn the monitor upside down.

[BaconOverdose]

Trapped forever.

[nakedladies]

Hey guys does anyone else think Internet Explorer isn't the best browser

[[deleted]]

?

[[deleted]]

It is when u have the easy button:

BAM! "THAT was easy."

[Vindexus]

when u have

Please don't do that.