On 23 Aug 2004 at 22:39, Owain Sutton wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > On 22 Aug 2004 at 16:30, Owain Sutton wrote: > > > >>. . . why do most people still use Internet > >>Explorer? Because they don't know what they're missing. > > > > I was in California for 3 weeks and for the first two weeks I was > > staying with an older couple who use AOL. Their copy of Internet > > Explorer was just completely infested with spyware and popup junk -- > > I had never seen anything so awful. I downloaded Lavasoft's AdAware > > and it found over 400 separate suspect items. > > > > I simply don't understand why anyone puts up with this kind of crap > > from IE -- it's the worst-engineered piece of software I have ever > > encountered. > > > > FireFox or Mozilla or Opera or Camino or Safari are all so much > > better in so many ways than IE, and not prone to the popup > > annoyances and the spyware infections. And they are all faster and > > more reliable browsers with better usability features. > > Most people have never heard of Mozilla or Opera. Seriously. It > seems strange to us geeks, but in the outside world, people think that > the internet is something that just "is", and they don't know what a > browser does.
I know they haven't heard of them. But I don't understand why they are happy with the crap they have to put up with and are not actively asking why they have to put up with it (which would then lead to them finding out about the alternatives). Until I saw how bad it could be, I thought using IE entailed just the minor annoyance of a bad UI and non-standard HTML rendering. Now I see that using it requires that you put up with an enormous amount of crap and a very high annoyance level, a level high enough that if I had to put up with it, I'd stop using the Internet entirely -- it's absolutely that bad. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
