If they are really listening, that can only be a good thing.

Also, thanks for the tip. To be honest, I never knew you could do that! I’m always learning and for good reason, it broadens my skills.

This gripes page is concise and informative. While it doesn’t present any solutions, and these problems have been known for a while, someone is just voicing it louder. Of course we all know the culprit is Microsoft, so the only thing we can do is bend our knees, lower our head, and move forward, one step at a time.

I’ve gotten my roommate, who has used AOL for the past 6 years, daily, to switch to Firefox just recently. Imported her bookmarks, address book to Thunderbird, and uninstalled AOL. She has not looked back, and asked me why I didn’t do this sooner. She’s loving the tabbed browser, the pop up blocking, the ad blocking (Firefox Help FAQ has code you can put in your userContent file), and increased security. She has gone from getting new spyware/adware every week, to none in months.

My next convert? My grandma.

Kartooner, you can actually leave out the http: part out of an URL. Same with www. I’ve taken to typing URLs out as a href=”//kartooner.com”. Less typing, and even less bandwidth in the long run.

Those old enough to remember the Web Standards Project early steps might remember a banner ad along these lines (If TVs didn’t follow standards). The real problem here is MS refusing to play fair and along with everyone else; instead of tweaking up their browser to follow a common set of rules which would make all our lives easier, they just choose to play the bully guy and defy everyone else, by doing nothing — and since they already got 95% of the world’s PC market share, why should they bother over the other 5%?

Unless they don’t lose something like 20% or so, MS is not going to move its ass, and even then they’ll just concentrate on churning more agressive marketing to lure new clients, not on web standards — because of the “my way or the highway” mindset that has been characteristic of MS and others (i.e. some guy from Texas that happens to be a President) for so many years.

I’ve finally had my two obligatory cups of coffee, thank goodness. And yes, slow day at work.

Dude, there is NO WAY I could ever use a browser without tabs, those things are just sweet! I frequent sites that run web-mapping apps, and many of these won’t run on anything but IE, which sucks (although this is becoming less and less of a problem lately).

Personally, I don’t think anyone should ever be told what browser to use (we can suggest all we want, right?), whether it be IE or Mozilla, that choice is ultimately left up to the end user. Telling people your site is “Best viewed in IE” is saying that you are a coding wuss. That said, I also believe sites should be coded to function properly (not necessarily look exactly as wanted, i.e. CSS issues) in any browser, especially if you want to make money off of the site. If I were trying to buy something at a site while using FF, and say, the shopping cart were to crash (after they “advised” me to use IE), I would take my business elsewhere.

I don’t really have time for crap like that, do you?

As for Weight Watchers’ response, I’ve received the same response from IngramMicro. They acknowledged the existence of Firefox, but — at least for the time being — don’t see the advantages of supporting other browsers.