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For those of you who have never ventured beyond the world of Windows, you may not realize the number of websites which people such as I, who don’t use Windows, encounter which are not only “optimized to work with Internet Explorer”, but which simply won’t work with any browser other than Internet Explorer. I have always found this unhospitable and, yes, just plain rude. Whenever I am involved in running a commercial website, I always try makes sure that it is friendly to all web browsers out there - even Lynx! (If you have to ask..) However, some people apparently take even more exception to the “Only I.E. accepted here” sites than do I. So much so that at least one person has developed a set of instructions for banning Internet Explorer from your website, and who knows how many untold people are now using those instructions! Yes, Devin Carraway has devoted an entire page to his apparently widely read website, in which he describes in great detail how to block Internet Explorer from accessing your website at all or, if you prefer, how to make the I.E. using crowd jump through some hoops, and go through a page where you can tell them exactly why you are making them jump through hoops, before letting them into your site. Personally I think that this is, well, unhospitable and, yes, just plain rude. But I also understand the frustration. What do you think? You can read Devin’s page here.
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This proves, yet again, that *nix fankids are the religeous extremists of the net.
“Look at how cool I am, I can block your browser”.
Yes, you are so very, very cool.
Comment by Anonymous — 1/18/2005 @ 7:55 am
I keep a list of web sites that don’t work well with Firefox at
http://www.computergripes.com/firefoxsites.html
Comment by michael horowitz — 1/18/2005 @ 8:21 am
I keep a list of web sites that don’t work well with firefox at
http://www.computergripes.com/firefoxsites.html
Comment by michael horowitz — 1/18/2005 @ 8:23 am
purchased a dell and was unable to enter their support pages without I.E.browser.
many virus programs also require use I.E., none other. this is unfair, rude and
inconsiderate particularly since one is not informed before hand that I.E. has to
be used for support, before purchasing items. I have elected not to buy from
these vendors in the future. i am glad that the table is being reversed.
Comment by alex — 1/18/2005 @ 9:14 am
*sigh* This is just as bad as blocking Netscape/Mozilla/Opera/Safari/whatever…
Someone needs to check out the Viewable With Any Browser campaign.
(That said, I link to Browse Happy on several sections of my site.)
Comment by Kelson — 1/18/2005 @ 9:38 am
First time I saw a page about blocking IE was probably 1996, maybe even earlier. I don’t think anyone ever noticed.
In any case, browser-specificity is a sign of lazy designers…and we’ll always have lazy designers. *surg*
Comment by anonymoose — 1/18/2005 @ 6:14 pm
dear sir ,
i want to know how is intenet sites banned / block i known hin .
thanks
internet dhaba
hajipur vaishali (bihar)
Comment by mithun kumar — 8/15/2007 @ 6:20 am
i want to block / banned of internet sites . ex :- http://www. jagran .com (block / banned ) how can i do ?
Comment by mithun kumar — 8/15/2007 @ 6:21 am
hello sir ,
i want to know how any sies of internet banned/block . please send my e-mail address hzpmithunkumar @gmail.com
from
internet dhaba
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thanku with best regards
Comment by mithun kumar — 8/15/2007 @ 8:29 pm
Do I ever so hate, or better yet loathe Internet Explorer. Something that just won’t die no matter what you do.
Comment by a — 7/31/2008 @ 2:04 pm
Hahahahahah. Comment number 6 has to be the most ignorant comment I have seen in a long time. Yes there are lazy developers out there, but this isn’t necessarily the case here. It is not lazy to not cater for IE, it is the right thing to do, and the only thing that we as web developers can do besides educating the public about why Internet Explorer should not be used. When following web standards, IE fails to work when EVERY other browser works. This exists in all client side technologies and has never changed. If IE did follow standards, then discussions such as these would probably never happen.
Comment by Trey — 12/15/2008 @ 7:40 pm
I think blocking is bad, but having a small one-time notice that says IE6 is not supported or maintained, is more than reasonable - it’s the right thing to do. Microsoft just announced they are extending IE6 support into 2014 - because they are spineless and don’t understand technology. IE6 is holding back the entire internet, as a web app developer I daily feel the pain of having to spend 10-20% of our time JUST on supporting this lame browser and frankly I am pushing to just ignore it and the users stuck with it can go jump, sure it’s not their fault but it’s their workplaces fault. Supporting is enabling. It has to go.
Comment by rub — 8/16/2009 @ 8:18 am
I can understand why people want to block internet explorer. The browser does not support all standards by the W3C. Blocking Internet Explorer users is drastic but is only effective when everyone does it.
The only reason why IE has such a high percentage of the browser market is because it ships with Windows. And Microsoft is too arrogant to adjust to standards made by others.
Do you people even realize how much headache Internet Explorer causes for webdevelopers?
I am not an unexperienced webdeveloper (been in the bizz for at least 8 years) and I have always been struggeling with making sites look EXACTLY the same in IE as in FF.
I think current Internet Explorers (yes even IE 8) hold back the full potential of the internet.
BTW: I use Linux and Windows, so please don’t think I’m some fan boy, I’m just a really frustrated webdeveloper :).
Comment by TA — 10/2/2009 @ 1:31 am