This is a humble request from a web developer to the Internet Explorer users, on behalf of all the web developers who work hard to bring all sorts of websites to you, to please don’t take good websites for granted and stop using Internet Explorer due to it being a terrible obstacle for the web developers to their work right, and move to Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
As an end user of the Internet, if you are not a web developer and use Internet Explorer, you don’t know what unnecessary pain web developers have to go through just so that they can develop for you correctly functioning websites in Internet Explorer. Despite it being a product of the world’s biggest software company, which worth at one time half a trillion US dollars, it is one of the crappiest piece of software ever written.
Time breakdown of a modern web design
All the websites you browse in the Internet Explorer today, go through unnecessary pain staking development by the web developers just because of this one poorly written web browser. They could use their time and effort to produce significantly better websites and better content. But instead they waste this time and effort to make their websites work under various versions of Internet Explorer, the same websites which work perfectly fine under any other browser without any extra effort.
And they have no choice, but to waste this time and effort because majority of the Internet users use one or another version of Internet Explorer. If there were only a small number of people using Internet Explorer, the web developers wouldn’t need to waste their time and energy to figure out ways to make their websites work under it.
All versions of Internet Explorer are full of bugs and break a lot of web standards. When a web developer finishes developing a website, he or she starts finding workarounds to make his or her website look right under various versions of Internet Explorer. Usually they start from workarounds to make it work for Internet Explorer 5.5. Once done, they find workarounds for Internet Explorer 6.0. Then they continue doing the same for Internet Explorer 7 and these days they’ll be busy finding workarounds for Internet Explorer 8.
If everybody stops using the Internet Explorer by the end of this year, it’ll bring a revolution in the field of information technology, as you’ll see much better websites and much better content appearing on the Internet, because web developers who waste at least half of their time making websites work under Internet Explorer, will be able to use this time to focus on delivering better websites and better content.
Following are some graphical representations which will make it clear to you what I said above:
IE9 vs Firefox 4
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