Sites that require Internet Explorer

Pete Holsberg pjh42 at pobox.com
Thu Feb 5 15:26:22 UTC 2009


Hal Burgiss has written on 2/4/2009 9:13 PM:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:46:48PM -0500, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>   
>> Well, on one of the reported sites, I found this:
>>
>> "Users from 68 countries have rated their browser experience and sent 
>> uTest on the most bugs in the top three Web browsers.  Internet Explorer 
>> 8, Firefox 3.1 and Google Chrome were on the list.
>>
>> "Over the course of one week, 672 bugs were found across all three 
>> browsers.  IE8 came in with 169 bugs, Firefox with 207 bugs and Chrome 
>> with 297 bugs.  A minority of the faults were found to cause browsers to 
>> cease functioning completely (lock up or crash)."
>>     
>
> I wonder what happened to good ol' IE6 (the buggiest browser EVER).
> And 7. You gotta weight that stuff. People that use MS products have a
> completely different idea of what a bug is vs. everybody else. Most of
> them can't tell you what product they are using, much less which 
> version. 

If you read my post, I said that I was ignoring websites where an 
individual expressed an opinion.

The results I reported on came from a supposedly reputable organization 
that ran tests to identify bugs on three browsers.




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