Stupid Video
Technorati Tags: firefox, Microsoft, rant, web browserYou know. Every time I post a video to this site something breaks in IE. I test it in Firefox and in Opera. I just don’t run IE.
Yet my friend, who for what ever reason loves IE, always calls me up and says something to the effect of, “your site is broke again.” It is crazy how 1 browser can make you reprogram everything. It is a load of crap.
People really should use a standard browser. Microsoft doesn’t make the standard. Hell, your lucky if Microsoft will stick to their own standards.
With that being said, I’m sorry if the site just stops working for you. You should think about getting Firefox or Opera. I even hear that Flock is a kick ass browser.
I know, I know. Not everything works in Firefox and Opera. The reason for this is because people didn’t program in standards. They programmed in Microsoft standards. I have seen sites break from browser to browser when Microsoft makes a new release. So it is not just Firefox, it is also Microsoft breaking Microsoft built websites.
Ok end of rant. Yall have a good day. I’m going to get some work done and also work on today’s ASMW.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:37 am
What the industray standards are and what the mass population standards are may not be the same. The standard browers for most of the US is IE. Is IE the best, probably not, but most people use. So with that said I would think most web-admins would want to make sure their sites worked in IE cause that is what most of their users will be on when they visit that site.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Most users use what comes on their computer. That is why MS has been in court so many times.
Standards are in place to make think compatible. They are not there so one company can make their own standards and force them on everyone. MS did get OOXML for Office 2007, to ISO. MS already has plans to change their own standard yet again with the new version of Office.
As a user you will never understand the frustration with supporting multiple applications, all with their own company standard, and few with ISO standards. MS text files made with Notepad are not even plain text. They have meta data in them and do not adhere to other standards.
If a company wants to build extra stuff into their browsers, let them do it after they have meet the standards. They shouldn’t go around the standards just because they have 90% market share.
If State Farm had 90% of market share in the insurance business, and had their own standards for dealing with claims, then someone would bitch because All State does it differently. You don’t have that problem because the State (GA, FL, CA) have standards that each insurance company must follow. Anything else is an added benefit of going with one provider or another.
That is the way that browsers should work. As well as all software. Standards first and then your bells and whistles.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I agree it is the way it “should” work but not laws are in force to make it so. With insurance there had to be laws put in place to force companies into meeting a set standard. However since the computer industry does not have these laws to force standards the programers/web-admin and the like need to meet the users standards which right now is mosty IE.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
You are right, there are not laws for standards. Although MS with though a lot to get the ISO standard for OOXML 2007, that still does mean that they have to keep the standard.
As for websites there is W3C. This as been put into place to make standards. IEEE, it the company that approves standards for hardware. That doesn’t mean that a company has to comply with those standards either, it just means that they are standards.
I do my best not to use programs or hardware that doesn’t comply with standards. W3C, ISO, and IEEE are the major standard holders. If you wish to work across many different thing, networks, electronics, websites, computers and OSs then you should adhere to at least the standards, laws or no-laws.
Personally your point with me is mute. In computers, things are handled though organizations. These organizations are in place to prevent just what is happening with the video.
As far as you are concerned though, your content with what you have an don’t have a need for standards. It is consumers like this that allow a company like MS to continue to do what they please because the people that use MS software will just deal with what they have and not demand more.
Oh one last thing. This site is still not 100% compliant with W3C. It is hard to keep up with, even more so when you do not just build websites. I’m working on getting it 100% again. It was at one time, but changes without checking them, makes for a mess sometimes.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I am not trying to say that companies shouldn’t have to follow standards. What I am saying is, that companies like Microsoft never will unless they are forced by the government. Why? Cause most people are like me and have no idea there are standards to begin with. Let alone if any one company is following those standards.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
And much like the rest of this nation you rely on the government to take care of you. “oh, please protect me government. I know that your crooked and all, but I still need you to protect me because I’m to lazy to know about other things as long as they work.”
I don’t know about insurance or any of the laws behind it. I think that it is a shame that we have to have insurance. It is a shame that people do not respect people enough to do what is right.
MS doesn’t respect or care about its user base. You can tell that by MS not supporting anything that they put out there. Call MS for support on Vista, you will be charged $250 per hour. What you just paid $600 for the OS. Sound good to them. Also, MS relies on Dell and other companies to support the OS when you buy from them. Dell’s answer to problems it to set it back to factory specs, and you loose all of your data. I have heard enough horror stories.
Sometimes I have to use my insurance, other times, I have not because the other person and myself would rather not get them involved and we are grown enough to handle our own problems. I wish other things were like that. Oh they are.. standards.