ActiveX is essentially just as proprietary as its alternative, namely the Netscape/Mozilla plug-in format. Your ActiveX argument is about third parties being too incompetent to implement it and alternative technologies properly. I think It's time for me to get Firefox back because I'm going insane using only Camino, and Safari has that horrendous UI. That's enough ranting on about all the ways IE is the WORST product Microsoft ever came out with. Taking all of that into account IE7 is the WORST Microsoft product one can possibly imagine. but the good news is Microsoft appears to be phasing it out.Īnother reason why IE sucks as much as it does: If you try to uninstall it you pretty much screw up your entire OS (if you use Windows) because a lot of Apps rely on it. The internet is still not Purged of this disease and a lot of Web Developers are still using it. With it's UI being as inconsistent as it is, and the simple little matter that Microsoft pretty much owns the internet now, if you were serious you would have to be locked in a rubber room. No I'm serious, that has to be the funniest thing I ever read. I laugh, because you see, that is a REALLY good joke. There is a time and a place for all Applications, but you nearly killed me when you said IE7 was better then Firefox. Your idealism of 'I can fix it myself' is just a few inches short of a pipe dream. That's true of code, code, Gimp code, GNOME code, whathaveyou. But the reality is extremely far away from that, because at the end of the day, very few developers actually enjoy focusing on maintaining, documenting and restructuring code when they feel they don't have to because it's just about good enough for them ?*after all, they're already familiar with it. Yes, it theoretically enables you to fix things. Or you could end up in a situation like the Gimp, where the oh-so-non-proprietary file format isn't actually documented much at all, and where forked projects fail to be completely compatible for lack of documentation and standardization.ĭon't assume that open source necessarily makes things easier for you. Still, commercial software vendors don't give you the ability to fix the software yourself, effectively holding you hostage.Īnd open source projects tend to have awful code documentation, effectively making it prohibitively impossible for you to fix the software yourself without doing a crash course of several weeks to try and figure out the absurd source code structure.
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