Comments on: Web App Wednesday – Internet Exploder

By: randy

randy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:31:55 +0000

Amos – Perfect example of being the first on the market.

Audra – wow, AOL… I think I’ve used that about 2 times… It always seemed like a beast of a Browser. Stuff every where, but always seems community based.

Jeff – I think you may have hit a good hot spot there, and you’re right, Free just seems weird. There’s got to be a catch. Opera is free to, and it’s good. So there’s some kind of competition going on here.

Also you’re right, Firefox isn’t that big of a deal. but for me its about making the Internet more usable. If we the viewers don’t up our standard than were going to continue to be sold crappy sandwiches when we could have been waiting in line at the free soup kitchen.

Tracy – Shame on your laziness…ha ha

By: Tracy Edwards

Tracy Edwards — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:56:53 +0000

Because I am a computer idiot!! How’s that for ya???

Seriously, I have to get new computers for my office SOON! They will probably be PC’s b/c the guy who does all the work on them for me does it FREE. He is not MAC savvy. I can’t pass up free!

IE is what we have had set up on our computers forever. It works fine. I haven’t had any problems until I tried to view Fee’s site yesterday. SORRY for being the cause of your crazy day!

Anyways, until I get my new computers, I am probably staying with IE unless someone comes and changes everything for me. When you are ignorant about computers, change makes you think you will lose stuff and break stuff!!

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:03:41 +0000

Up until a month ago I was using Internet Explorer. I needed to use an application for the church that didn’t really get along with IE though. Somebody turned me on to firefox. Firefox is way faster. There’s a few other bells and whistles. But really, to me, it’s not that big a deal.
As long as Internet Explorer gets people where they want to go it’ll be tough to get people to make the switch. I was surprised and a little susicious when I found out that firefox was free. I wonder if I speak for others when I say that when I find something free I have to wonder “what’s the catch.” people have explained that firefox is safer than Internet Explorer. But downloading something free on to my computer is almost equivalent to picking up a sandwhich and eating it that was just sitting on a table at a mall food court… There’s so subtle questions about “I didn’t pay for it so I can’t have it.” and less subtle concerns about the safety of the item being “digested.”
These concerns may not be rational but I think they are hurdles.

By: Audra Krell

Audra Krell — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:08:21 +0000

I’m still using something even worse, AOL. IE will be like graduating for me.

By: amoslanka

amoslanka — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:25:54 +0000

“ignorant masses” is an accurate term, in particular because if i’m not mistaken, IE still holds at least 70% of the market share.
The M$ people are saying that IE8 is suppose to conform more to web standards than IE is known for. And do just a bit of web development and its not hard to find how far off the standards track past releases of IE have been.