Tim Slattery said:
Because of inertia. Firefox is better.
Firefox is better in the same way that a screwdriver is better than a
hammer. It all depends on what you want to do.
Firefox is making progress simply because it isn't IE.
How many general websites has anyone here visited that screws up because the
developer the other end hadn't taken IE into account? Compare that with the
number of websites that don't quite work right in firefox because the
developer assumed IE.
From the consumers point of view Firefox is only better then IE because it
is cool to use Firefox. If you want to make sure you can get things done IE
is a better choice.
Now what about the massive intranet use of web technologies (IMO an absolute
catastrophe for the UI that has held us back for an entire decade). Which
browser do you choose for the desktop?
I would like to choose Firefox cos it's cool but IE allows considerably
greater flexibility in UI design, has IMO a better event model, gives a
larger (ableit non-standard) set of methods and properties on the DOM and
(not to be underestimated) has good documentation. Firefox documentation is
still very embryonic and that for me is a major flaw. (Just try going the
the Mozilla or firefox home page and navigating to the DOM documentation)
I like where Firefox is going but it isn't quite there yet and I'm afraid
but the time it gets there IE 7 will steal it's thunder and I suspect won't
play ball with the standards we'd all like to.
In what scenario's is Firefox better than IE? I'm sure there must be some.
I've seen this before ... hmm... oh yes OS/2 was better than Windows 3.1
now where did I leave my zimmer frame?
Anthony.