IE8 - why bother?
I was reading today about IE8 and all the controversy about the default mode which will make it behave as IE7 unless you activate the "non-default" options.
Life always seems to be like this - you want to automatically "opt-out" as the default for marketing purposes but some companies still, unfortunately, think it's a god given right for you to be "opted-in". Similarly, I had a right nightmare with my web hosting/WHO.IS to get my details removed - which, happily, has been sorted out.
Why is it that so commonly the wrong "default" option is chosen? I can't see why Microsoft have gone down this route - it is hard enough to believe that they left such a gap between IE6 and IE7 but to redevelop IE8 but effectively "switch it off" seems unbelievably silly.
I'm hopeful that they will see sense - but until then, I guess at least we know how to turn the new functionality on! Goodness knows why people bother with IE at all - give me Firefox every time.
Life always seems to be like this - you want to automatically "opt-out" as the default for marketing purposes but some companies still, unfortunately, think it's a god given right for you to be "opted-in". Similarly, I had a right nightmare with my web hosting/WHO.IS to get my details removed - which, happily, has been sorted out.
Why is it that so commonly the wrong "default" option is chosen? I can't see why Microsoft have gone down this route - it is hard enough to believe that they left such a gap between IE6 and IE7 but to redevelop IE8 but effectively "switch it off" seems unbelievably silly.
I'm hopeful that they will see sense - but until then, I guess at least we know how to turn the new functionality on! Goodness knows why people bother with IE at all - give me Firefox every time.
posted by Emma Swift at
15:15
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