Comments on: Best. Comment. Ever.

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:37:19 +0000

I totally agree with you - what browser you design for should solely depend on your demographic. Why bother wasting time designing for IE if only 5% of your visitors use it.

With most major sites roughly 5% of visitors are using some prehistoric version of Netscape or IE yet very rarely are sites designed to consider that 5%.

Ive been designing and coding for 8 years and back in 2002 I stopped coding for browsers that 5 - 10% of visitors use - there is just no point.

I’ve worked on quite a few major well known e-commerce sites and the basic mentality was that if someone was in that 5-10% (i.e. using a truly outdated/crap browser) there are very unlikely to buy online in the first place.

By: Tomsy83

Tomsy83 — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:58:06 +0000

V.funny nice to see that they spent all that time writing the comment in so much detail and vigar!

By: Greg-J

Greg-J — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:06:09 +0000

Second. Best. Comment. Ever.

As a web developer myself, I’m going to call you out on this one Mrs. Bitchy. You’re way off base. This is HIS site. Not your site. You don’t have to be here. You don’t like being called on using a shitty browser? Don’t Use it.

Your analogy is terrible as well. Seriously lady… Paper?

Furthermore, as a web developer myself. I value my time, and I know Christopher does as well. Time is money, and my time is damn valuable. That said, the LAST place we want to have to put up with IE is on our own damn blogs. It’s not our fault IE is the 3-legged dog of browsers.

To Chris
You’re a better man than I. I don’t even display my main blog to IE users. I display them a message regarding the W3C and redirect them to getfirefox a few moments later.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:16:54 +0000

AndyE: I’ve read the article you mentioned about Firefox, and I also agree with you 100%.

The more popular a browser becomes, the more it is targeted, the less secure it is.”

Which in turn does make IE very insecure. While Firefox may be insecure, it simply isn’t taken advantage of like IE. Anyways, I modified the site to display just peachy in IE, and removed the anti-IE banner.

If folks were smart they’d just use Safari.

By: AndyE

AndyE — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:00:03 +0000

Guess what. If you did a little reading, you would have discovered that Firefox is now the LEAST SECURE browser. The more popular a browser becomes, the more it is targeted, the less secure it is. Don’t take my word for it. Read my post at Ryze- here, and follow through to the source report from Symantec.

By: Zajako

Zajako — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:29:54 +0000

haha, that IS the best comment ever, I laughed so hard.
Heh nice Javascript Preview for the comment system too

By: Don

Don — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:04:38 +0000

This is what really caught my attention:

(RTS)… If IE was paper, I wouldn’t even wipe my rear end with it.

ROTFL!

By: trench

trench — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:56:17 +0000

Screw the haters. IE does suck and should be banned!!!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:44:13 +0000

kazi: I agree with you… you should design in a way so most people see the site properly. Firefox is the number one browser used on this site, followed closely by Safari.

By: taco

taco — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:24:15 +0000

Instead of checking the browser to say if it sucks or not, check it to display the correct version of your site for people using differnet browsers to see. Simple?

And, Internet Explorer sucks. One thing to do, is check, and if they are not using Firefox [or some other browser,] recommend it to them.

For a ‘professional’ to call you an arrogant little wanker, I don’t think they are that professional..

I’m so sick of web designer’s sites and their bitching and whining about how terrible this browser or that browser is.

Hmm.. who’s bitching and whining here?