More reason that explains MSIE's suckiness
- Please read this very important document concerning ZDNet.
- MS, again trying to dominate the Internet, adds its own MS-only tags so that IE could have an "advantage" over Navigator. But in fact, these non-standard tags (such as bgsound) can be easily replaced with Internet standard tags (such as embed), Javascipts, and Java.
- Microsoft's is trying to corrupt Sun's Java by altering this universal-platform language to fit Windows better, and IE's JVM serves as proof.
- Download.com's stats show that Netscape Communicator get 80% more downloads than MSIE. Download.com's weekly newsletter has been putting Netscape on the Top 10 of each edition for quite some time. For the one year I've subscribed to the Dispatch, I've seen IE make the list only twice. No wonder Communicator is #3 on Dispatch's all time Top 10 list. Also see Tucow's Top Downloads.
- There's this weird bug reported for IE 4, which was experienced by Mark Hall of ZD Labs. It is quite ironic.
- Wanna know why IE is labled "The Internet" on your Win95 desktop? Microsoft wants to trick newbies into thinking that double clicking the ugly Globe icon is the only way to get to the Web.
- Unlike Netscape, Microstupid hires only snot-dripping dorks for it's IE staff who charge $2 per second for tech support.
- Did I mention the Exploiter tech support sucks? One time I called them and this guy fucked up my Dial Up Networking. As you can see I'm still pissed about it.
- IE refreshes the current page each time an image finishes loading. This means that while reading an article, a huge image might suddenly displace the text which you were just reading, and each time the page refreshes IE must take up processor power.
- It's slower than Netscape in loading graphics once they're in the cache.
- It supports Laxative-X, which not only drains up at least 8MB of your memory after running for 4.0568034751006 nanoseconds, but also the cause of IE's primary security and privacy bugs.
- IE takes 13MB more hard disk space than Netscape Communicator, and its setup is complicated, requiring a 500KB setup program before you can even start the 26MB+ download.
- IE took 10-15 minutes to install on the PII300 while Communicator needed 1.
- IE 3 relies on MS Frontpage for editing webpages (ohhhh, so that's what the "edit" button was for) which makes you cough up another $150 for the HTML editor.
- If you have IE 4, FrontPage Express, unlike Composer, is not classified as a full-strength website creator by CNet. Also, its interface can be very confusing to novice page creators.
- So what if they can't spell even if their life depended on it, warez traders are at least Net savvy, and I have yet to see any one of them prefer IE over Navigator: "Definitely the best browser around! Beats the shitty IE4 in all aspects... Dont [sic] even think of coming to any warez site if youre [sic] not using this!" - WarezDownload.
- Internet Exploder is always resident on Win98, whether you like it or not. There is no way to remove it. It just sits there, taking up hundreds of MB's of hard drive space. It doesn't care if you use it or not...because it will lurk there...forever.
- IE's Active X is used to hack Quicken, thus sending private data (such as credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc.) to hackers due to its security flaws.
- For the techies: Try to build an infrastructure of web users and servers based upon X.509 certificate authentication. Netscape supports certificate chaining. With MS, Certificate chaining is unsupported, so users are forced to manually accept all unique Certificate Authorities.
- For more consumer opinion, brilliant analysis, and embarrassing mistakes, please take a look at the Guestbook. Here's an outstanding comment by Brice Nadolson.
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