Most people use IE because they dont know other browsers exist. This applies to MS Windows only.
Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0
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#22To be fair, IE3 and, more specifically, Microsoft News and Mail, had one intriguing idea - that mail (and NNTP) messages were things to be managed like files and folders by a shell extension. I would love to have Nautilus turn into a mail or calendar client when opening specific folders (somewhat extending magic into discovering what a folder is about)
Really?
I’m quite happy that the world has been moving into another direction. You no longer have to browse your music or photos in the filesystem, you have a dedicated music or photos program. That seems ideal to me, I wouldn’t want my file browser to be a swiss army knife.
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#23The fact that this guy makes something as boring as upgrading software over and over again actually enjoyable to watch is really astonishing.
He's got a good, non-emotional speaking voice, and his content:noise ratio is high. Also, the tempo of the overview is near perfect, and his choice of what video to show to go with his voiceover is flawless.
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#24The best result of all of this is clearly that IE2 gets 93/100 in ACID3. Take that, Google Chrome!
I'm running Chrome 10.0.648.134 and it got 100/100 with a fast, smooth animation and pixel-perfect comparison to the reference encoding.
But they took about 15 years longer to get there!
(Also, I'm running 10.0.648.151: was there a 'regression' or are you running something custom on top of Chrome?)
Re: Man upgrades Internet Explorer 1.0 to 9.0
#25He should do this for each of the MS Office Apps too.
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#26To be fair, IE3 and, more specifically, Microsoft News and Mail, had one intriguing idea - that mail (and NNTP) messages were things to be managed like files and folders by a shell extension. I would love to have Nautilus turn into a mail or calendar client when opening specific folders (somewhat extending magic into discovering what a folder is about)
Really? I’m quite happy that the world has been moving into another direction. You no longer have to browse your music or photos in the filesystem, you have a dedicated music or photos program. That seems ideal to me, I wouldn’t want my file browser to be a swiss army knife.
But that's the point of what I was saying - when you are browsing your music, your filesystem browser becomes a music program. If you want to see files, switch back to files view and you are done.
I am not saying this is how every file browsing should happen and how every program should behave, but, for some data types - like mail, videos, music - it makes a lot of sense
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#27My favourite part was IE2 getting 93/100 on the Acid3 test.
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#28"If you’re an Internet Explorer fan..." Wait what? I was under the impression that most people use IE either because its installed by default or they are forced by their corporate overloads. Do people actually use IE because they really liked it after comparing it with other options?
As someone once told me, "Internet Explorer is the application I use to download Firefox"
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#29It doesn't look like he used 1.0 in the video. Did I miss something?
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#30"If you’re an Internet Explorer fan..." Wait what? I was under the impression that most people use IE either because its installed by default or they are forced by their corporate overloads. Do people actually use IE because they really liked it after comparing it with other options?
For one thing, IE 8 is arguably a more secure browser than Firefox due to its use of low-integrity process isolation on Windows Vista and 7. It's also more stable than Firefox in my experience, probably because of the way it isolates browser windows into separate processes. And now IE 9 has a rendering engine that's at least equal to Firefox's. It lags behind Firefox's user interface in some respects (customization,…
Are you comparing IE 9 to Firefox 4.0, or Firefox 3.6?