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Weblog:   Should You Give Up Internet Explorer?
Subject:   Why should you keep using IE?
Date:   2004-07-07 09:54:07
From:   brianiac
Look, I use Microsoft products everyday, and I like many of them, but what is this hand-wringing all about?
Is this just inertia? With which sites do you have trouble with Firefox?
I mean IE barely understands HTML (the abbr tag, option groups, the button tag, the object tag, no alternate stylesheet selector, no link bar, ...), much less CSS (selectors, box model). It simply isn't very capable!
Should ActiveX be a bigger concern than these basic web technologies?


In terms of security, I can understand the "biggest target" argument, but is it really technically *possible* to install spyware on anything other than IE? If so, is it a transient bug? It seems that it is easier to build an amoral business model on a "feature" like ActiveX, than a programming error that cannot be relied on.


Sure, you can disable ActiveX (or set it to prompt, although in my experience that just does the same thing), but then you have a browser without ActiveX (or that, in the best case, incessantly prompts you--remember the Eolas proof of concept IE?) *or* decent standards support (or cool extensions/themes).
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