Internet Explorer vs. Firefox

[Caddyman]

Originally Posted by Sofia

Mainly, I use Firefox. But I use both to create styles.

yes

ff for everyday browsing

ff and IE both when testing new styles or pages, etc.

[JacquiiDesigns]

<a href="http://opera.com" target="_blank">Opera </a>

As a web design hobbyist I have all the major browsers installed because every edit you do needs to be checked in all of them.

I don't like Firefox, but I use it for Firebug and because I know a good percentage of my traffic is from people who DO use it. For my regular browsing, I was a Maxthon guy for a long time but lately I've been using Chrome.

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Originally Posted by RLShare

lol. IE is the least standards compliant out of all the major browsers. Every major release of IE comes with the need for new CSS hacks/tweaks developers have to learn in order to get their sites to display properly in IE as opposed to every other browser. IE is the most painful browser to develop for.

My experience has been the exact opposite, oddly enough. I find FF's all or nothing compliance to be infuriating at times, whereas IE has been a bit more forgiving with the occasional oops on my part.

[AdrianH]

Opera !

[Lautaro]

I mainly use Firefox because its great for me, but I also use chrome, safari, opera and IE when I design a website to check everything's looking well on all browsers

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by RLShare

lol. IE is the least standards compliant out of all the major browsers. Every major release of IE comes with the need for new CSS hacks/tweaks developers have to learn in order to get their sites to display properly in IE as opposed to every other browser. IE is the most painful browser to develop for.

Except you know this whole new fandangled IE8 browser which is standards compliant.

[RedeemedWarrior]

IE only to test styles

FF3 always for my personal use

[KTBleeding]

Originally Posted by Zachery

Except you know this whole new fandangled IE8 browser which is standards compliant.

Not really. They can render fine at the moment, but they still have a set of their "own" standards, rather than just following W3C completely. But, W3C moves so slowly at setting standards, I personally can't really blame them.. Even though it irritates me to no end.

IE8 is fine, so long as people doing work on the site don't use hacks in their stylesheet to work for IE6/7's lack of support. ( I'm talking about stuff like.. _height: ). If they set up their sites poorly, they could see a LOT of problems in IE8. Hence the "compatibility mode".. which is just going to cause more problems, I think.

Personally, I've seen the light of a better browser for years now, and Microsoft took WAY too long to release 8. (almost 8 years? since that poor excuse for a browser (IE7) shouldn't really count..) If it weren't for addons, I'd use Chrome over Firefox simply for it's great css3 support so far.

[vivoperdio]

I uses Opera and Safari

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by KTBleeding

If it weren't for addons, I'd use Chrome over Firefox simply for it's great css3 support so far.

I consider Chrome to be malware. It doesn't allow me to install it where I want to. It forces its install in the User folder so it can bypass Windows UAC. This tosses all security out the window. Plus it installs a services for updates. That isn't bad in itself but the updates are automatic without user intervention. Also because Chrome is in your user forum, the Updater basically gives Google the permission to install whatever they want on your computer. When they allow addons, it will give addon authors permission to install whatever they want on your computer. I don't trust any company enough to give them blanket permission to install things on my computer.