vinylweatherman
You type well loads
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2004
- Location
- United Kingdom
***ADMIN NOTE: removed from another thread (derail) - but restored here.***
It's a case of familiarality. I have tried others, but quickly get lost when trying to find how to do certain things. I have also found that software (Microgaming for example) ONLY uses IE for the lobby, regardless of any other browser that is installed and registered as the default.
I also have this expectation that IE is less likely to run into problems with Windows since both come from the same company, and should at least be compatible with each other. I also can never get Flash to work in Firefox, the plug-in is there, but displays a black box instead of the Flash content. If the website uses Flash, the user has no choice but to install the Flash plug-in, even though Flash is rapidly being discredited as a "reliable" method of including video content in websites. The Flash issue is what makes iPad such a problem as a platform, as so many websites just don't work on it unless they are specifically engineered as "iPad friendly". This lack of multi platform compatibilty is what keeps Microsoft in such a dominant position. Other standards are better, but this doesn't help if the websites you visit don't use them.
You like having problems, don't you?
It's so weird so many people still use IE as their browser. As a webmeister I now know why they're hated by so many. Well I mean even more than I knew beforehand..
Their javascript engine is just horrible..
I'll shut up now
*spits at IE and bing*
I do have an xbox though, even though it broke down on me once, and when a game is loading, and the sound is off, it's like someone is drilling a hole somewhere
shuts up again...
OT: good luck with the baptism SlotMonster! And I hope you get to accept more than just UK Players soon
It's a case of familiarality. I have tried others, but quickly get lost when trying to find how to do certain things. I have also found that software (Microgaming for example) ONLY uses IE for the lobby, regardless of any other browser that is installed and registered as the default.
I also have this expectation that IE is less likely to run into problems with Windows since both come from the same company, and should at least be compatible with each other. I also can never get Flash to work in Firefox, the plug-in is there, but displays a black box instead of the Flash content. If the website uses Flash, the user has no choice but to install the Flash plug-in, even though Flash is rapidly being discredited as a "reliable" method of including video content in websites. The Flash issue is what makes iPad such a problem as a platform, as so many websites just don't work on it unless they are specifically engineered as "iPad friendly". This lack of multi platform compatibilty is what keeps Microsoft in such a dominant position. Other standards are better, but this doesn't help if the websites you visit don't use them.