I’m totally and utterly shocked. I don’t know whether I’ve been putting my head in the sand for the last three decennia or so, or whether I am just as bloody ignorant as my Mom is when it comes to upgrading her Norton Antivirus Installation (something along the lines of: But why should I update? You don’t know how much time that takes. It doesn’t let any viruses through right now, so why would it be better if I update? I have to update it every bloody single day. And so on, and so on).
My ignorance however, is more directed towards the web browsers I’ve been using. Firefox 2, IE 6, could it get any more horrifying? And the most disturbing thought of all was that I was simply too lazy to update them. Sure, I knew my browser was outdated. But why would that bother me…Why would I even care to download the latest version of IE, even if half of my visitors are using that?
It’s stunning to see how someone like me, who used to point my fingers at others saying: Make sure you update your outdated browser! Old browsers are dangerous, etc. has fallen so low. Here I was, telling others about the dangers of using IE 6, while I’m bloody still running on it myself. And especially, while designing layouts, how could I be so utterly foolish to still keep designing using outdated browsers? Ah, the terrors of lazy people will never be fully understood.
Anyway, I came across Save the Developers today, featuring the latest versions of all your favourite browsers. In case you’re a developer, web standard guru, designer wannabe or anything else, I suggest you simply download them all. Like I did, just a minute ago. So far, the new Opera is my favourite (this may have to do with the fact that probably due to some Trojan Virus on my computer - oh, no worries, I’ll fix that soon enough - or other random spyware, Firefox does not want to start. I’m blaming this not on FF 3 itself, because I know perfectly well how sloppy I’ve been when it comes to securing Randy (yes, my computer has a name…) and I think that’s where something went wrong. Anyway, the latest Opera is cool, fast (made me realise just how slow IE is) and easy to use. But you know the saying: good developers use all possible browsers.
That said, now I’m off to download Seamonkey. Muwahahaha.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Trust me, IE7 isn’t that great of a browser (>_>) but good browser or not, people still like using them. And it’s nice to have it in the back so you can use it to check to make sure your layouts don’t look completely hideous.