Internet Explorer issue with the Forums

[Ryan Timothy B]

You know how the top new post has the background color of green (ish) to separate it from the old? With Internet Explorer it doesn't display that green background. I imagine it's some quirk with IE that prevents the div class from taking effect when the table already has a color class.

I only use IE on my phone, but I tested it with the latest browser on my computer and it has issues with it too.

It really is a nuisance because once the images start loading, the location of the new message isn't positioned at the top of the browser anymore and usually gets bumped down.

I end up having to read or skim through multiple posts that I've read already, which can be quite time consuming on a mobile device.


It looks like a very easy fix to me, perhaps even adding a table with "New Posts Below" written between the old and new.

[Darth Mandarb]

The simple solution is stop using Internet Explorer.

It's a worthless browser that needs to die.  Microsoft continues to ignore the developer community that has been telling them FOR A DECADE to stop doing things their own way in get in line with standards but they refuse.

I no longer develop for IE.  I make stuff work in IE, but if a few little bells and whistles don't work I don't attempt a work-around.

IE sucks and people just need to stop using it.

[Ryan Timothy B]

Oh trust me. If I could get Firefox for my phone, I wouldn't hesitate. On my pc I wouldn't dream of use IE, where I actually have a choice.
Just with WP7 there is no other option, yet.

[Darth Mandarb]

Ahh yes, I see.  I knew you were smarter than that

[bicilotti]

Going a bit OT, I am shocked to see this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

[Mati256]

I'm part of that 2.0% 

[Gilbert]

Heh, me too.

It's nothing shocking though, as you get IE immediately the moment you get a computer.

[zabnat]

Going a bit OT, I am shocked to see this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Me too. I mean Firefox having a bigger share than IE (in europe). Whoah. :o

[Radiant]

The simple solution is stop using Internet Explorer.

This, oh so very much.

[LimpingFish]

I've been using Firefox since...well,  I can't actually remember when. Almost exclusively on the last two PCs I've owned, anyway. I haven't opened IE in a donkey's age.

I've been trying out Chrome over the last few days. I'm digging the auto-translation, and the giant viewing area, but I'm wary of making a permanent switch.

[RickJ]

As for windows cell phones .. you may want to see how they are not doing in the marketplace
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/07/google_android_widens_lead_on_apples_iphone_in_us_smartphone_market.html

[Snake]

I am part of that 2.0% as well.

I've been using Opera since I found the AGS community back in '00 or '01 or whenever the hell it was. Before that I used IE of course, but it was only a year at the most because I didn't have internet access until '99 or '00. Then soon after that somebody mentioned Opera on the forums. I haven't looked back since - with IE it isn't that hard anyway.

[monkey0506]

I once tried Opera because I couldn't find a version of Firefox that was compatible with Windows 98, and being a fresh install it was on like IE 4 or 5 or something. It was..horrible to me. So, I don't use it. But to each his own.

I'm a big fan of Firefox, but there are some things about it that I would like to see improved (just not enough to write a plugin for it myself ).

My roommates use Chrome and I am regularly on their computer and/or laptop. It also has some things that I like, and some that I don't. I'm comfortable with both of these two.

IE..I don't even count. It's like meth*.

The biggest problem with EVERY web browser (to me) is that NONE of them are properly standards-compliant. The reason we have standards is so that no matter which browser Kevin chooses, where Kevin is any random entity, he will see the page the same way. Unfortunately, this is regularly not the case across various browsers. IE is the worst with perhaps the lowest standards-implementation percentage and highest browser-specific web-feature implementation. FF and Chrome do a good job, but there are things that they don't handle the same (which means that at most only one of them can be right).

Bah.

*Not even once.

[Darth Mandarb]

Aside from deep-level CSS/design stuff if I write code (simple code mind you) and put together a nice little web page with it, when I go to the browsers to test it; it will look identical (and proper) in Firefox, Safari, Chrome and even Opera.  Then I test it in IE.  Almost without exception it will look like garbage in IE.  Margins will be off, padding will affect container widths, only <a> tags support the hover attribute (pathetic), the list of things just goes on and on...  Web developers have been harping on Microsoft for a DECADE to fix these issues and they just dig the hole deeper in their arrogant refusal to fix their browser.

The bottom line is that IE is simply worthless.  And needs to die.

I have come across a few things that differ between Firefox v Chrome (such as internal padding on the <button> class) that requires some hacking to make it look the same cross-browser, but they are little/minor things compared to the heaping and steaming pile of cow-dung that is IE.