Visual Web Developer uses Firefox instead of IE?

[Mark]

Hi,

I am using Visual Web Developer 2005, whenever I run the application, it
launches Firefox, how do I change this to IE?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Right-click the file in question in the IDE; Select "Browse with";
Click "Add"; and add your favorite browser.

After, make it the default browser to use.



Juan T. Llibre
ASP.NET MVP
ASP.NET FAQ : http://asp.net.do/faq/
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[clintonG]

If you are going to use CSS in any capacity you are well advised to use
FireFox to develop all publically accessible websites as FireFox uses the
Gecko parser which many other standards compliant browsers also do. Then
hack up your code to respond to all of the IE bugs that fail to meet the
standards. For example study this one issue of more than a dozen that IE
breaks terribly...

search: ie box model hack

It has become insane to develop using IE and then figure out how to hack the
pages so they will render in all the other browsers that render correctly in
the first place.

Does this make sense?

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[jasonkester]

So your solution is to develop for the browser with 5% market
penetration and leave the vast majority of users in the world hanging?

I still can't understand why developers continue to tolerate FireFox.
It's not backwards compatable with IE. It's not even backwards
compatable with Netscape. It can't correctly render anything that
hasn't been custom tailored to it. This would be completely
unacceptable in any other software product, but FireFox seems to get a
pass because its supporters are so angry with Microsoft.

I suggest we just stop supporting it.

Jason Kester
Expat Software Consulting Services
http://www.expatsoftware.com/

 

[Mauro Mazzieri]

jasonkester ha scritto:

I still can't understand why developers continue to tolerate FireFox.
It's not backwards compatable with IE. It's not even backwards
compatable with Netscape.

Because it is based on web standards, and IE is not. So we have to
"tolerate" IE, but hoping that in a near future all browsers would be
standard-compliant.