I used to love IE simply for OnMouseEnter and OnMouseOut... made JS dragging techniques super easy, compared to other browsers, but still couldn't use it cause they were the only ones so, pfft. I stood by them till Chrome came out. I preferred Microsofts decisions of how the web should be rendered over w3c.
Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad [video]
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#12So internet explorer is good because it is the best browser on a platform (xbox360) that didn't have a browser before and where it doesn't have any competition because there are no other browsers?
Re: Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad [video]
#13IE hate is well deserved. How many hundreds of thousands or millions of productive hours have been lost due to incompabilities, bugs, etc? That being said, Microsoft is full of talented people and they do create some fantastic products. IE is slowly getting to a more respectable point and hating on it so harshly seems juvenile.
I agree, Microsoft is chock full of talented engineers.
Now if only they would let them make the decisions instead of those clueless PR and marketing people. Let the products speak for themselves instead of trying to dumb down everyone into using them through a fishy marketing campaign; they already have the talent to achieve this, but right now I get the feeling it's helplessly sitting there watching events unfold.
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#14I used to love IE simply for OnMouseEnter and OnMouseOut... made JS dragging techniques super easy, compared to other browsers, but still couldn't use it cause they were the only ones so, pfft. I stood by them till Chrome came out. I preferred Microsofts decisions of how the web should be rendered over w3c.
I'm a fairly young developer so managed to avoid the IE6 problems.
Can you elaborate on which MS decisions you preferred over w3c?
Re: Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad [video]
#15Did you notice this in the ad? http://www.karaokewebstandard.org/
I did notice, but didn't care enough about karaoke to look it up ;) It's all great that Microsoft is trying to push the web forward again, they used to before IE6, but I'm not sure I like this new direction. WebGL, WebRTC and other APIs being pushed by every other major browser vendor looks much more promising and useful. Karaoke isn't making the web more practical, although it's a nice feature for entertainment.
I believe it is a continuation of the joke. Mimicking the look of w3c standards. It's also interesting to point out they are using google analytics
Re: Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad [video]
#16I actually kinda like the ad, because the guy could be me in a heartbeat, i even own the same keyboard xD.
However the hate in me burns with the power of a thousand sons, when it comes to IE. The almost constant changes of MS standards with each new version of IE, inevitably breaks something, and will often require separate CSS styling..
And dont get me started on maintaining an app, that was built on IE6..
If I was in a room with Hitler, Osama bin Laden and the devlead for IE6, and had a gun with only 2 bullets.. I would shoot the IE6 lead twice..
That said and done, i really hope they start to embrace the "real" standards, as the the new development team proclaims.
Re: Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad [video]
#17IE hate is well deserved. How many hundreds of thousands or millions of productive hours have been lost due to incompabilities, bugs, etc? That being said, Microsoft is full of talented people and they do create some fantastic products. IE is slowly getting to a more respectable point and hating on it so harshly seems juvenile.
Microsoft is attacking a straw man. The people Microsoft needs to worry about are not trolls with too much time on their hands. The people they need to convince are web developers frustrated by 10 years of IE that refused to cooperate with standards and held everyone back. Even IE 9 has problems with JS features that Firefox, Chrome, and Opera implement. Microsoft did this to themselves, and I believe it is one of the reasons why developers are reticent to develop for Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8.
Re: Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad [video]
#18Did you guys notice the OS X hand cursor when he tweets? Here is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/ll0fq
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#19The thing about IE is that once they gain some market share, they start trying to push their "own" standards, even if the community is moving in the opposite direction. That is just the way it has been since IE6.
The ad targets haters that convince "regular users" that IE sucks...haters needed to do that because regular users couldn't totally grasp how much their web experience is affected for using that crappy browser and how many features they were missing.
The fact that a lot of them do not realize how awful their experience is, is due to countless hours of near-suicide frustration from programmers and coders around the world trying to make IE compatible applications.
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#20I used to love IE simply for OnMouseEnter and OnMouseOut... made JS dragging techniques super easy, compared to other browsers, but still couldn't use it cause they were the only ones so, pfft. I stood by them till Chrome came out. I preferred Microsofts decisions of how the web should be rendered over w3c.
I'm a fairly young developer so managed to avoid the IE6 problems. Can you elaborate on which MS decisions you preferred over w3c?
The infamous IE box model is one thing where you could debate that one or the other was preferable.