Note to alternative browsers: Drop the religion

Makes sense to me, you can have your basics that never change, but, that is not real life! No changes usually mean stagnation. Programmers need to get on the offensive, don't stay boring, don't get mad, GET EVEN!!

My two cents!

Marja

 

Interesting story, Ron.

 

I agree that that browser preference has become a haven for fanaticism. For example, check out various reviews for Firefox. Fans don't like this browser, they worship it and they tend to bash Internet Explorer mercilessly. I use Opera myself because I find it quicker (especially on dial-up) than IE/Firefox. All are very usable and have various pluses and minuses.

It would be nice if Opera/Firefox had the flexible standards of IE and render pages like IE does.

 

Good point.

I personally switched to Firefox around 3 months back and I do love it.
However, I also don't bash IE, and I was quite happy with that [not the standard, I used MyIE, etc. using IE's engine core] but at least I had it configured security wise to meet my needs.

After all, you still need it for WU, so no matter how much one bashes it, they still have to rely on it for WU's, and they still need to be security conscious.

Cheers, TAS

 

Fanaticism can be found anywhere in the software world. I could point out the vim versus emacs debates for one. But for one more particular to this forum, just look at the which AV is best debates !

 

LOL, the opera people have being known to be very fanatical themselves. Many of us are here too.