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IE Inertia (none / 0) (#13)
by welkerdp on Thu Jul 22, 2004 at 03:14:20 AM PDT

IE got market penetration by being first in line with cascading style sheets. Once the foothold was established corporate sites began constructing applications using ActiveX controls -- it didn't matter to them because the applications were internal. Once IE became part of the OS "everyone" was presumed to have it (whether they used it or not) and public sites targeted IE as the standard platform. Another reason for this last bit was that Sun brilliantly shot itself in the foot by exerting its proprietary rights to Java, the one technology that might have prevented the monopoly. When I tried Firefox it was Firefox that was truly bad (same for Mozilla) -- half the websites simply didn't function properly. IE popup blockers are free by the dozen. I've used tabbed apps that embed IE (RSS Bandit, MS Technet and MSDN readers) and I'm not especially impressed with tabbed browsing either. Finally remember that for IE there is no "browser market" -- only the Windows market. I think the 6% not using IE are the "true" Linux users -- because they can't run IE directly on Linux. I'm waiting for the production release of Firefox, at which time I will consider making it my primary browser. Until then I'll stick with IE, because in the forseeable future there's no way to be rid of it.


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