My favourite programming function in the entire world

[MattFr]

Lol, complaining about Internet Explorer is completely pointless. It's the most used browser in the world, get over it and make your code work with it. God.

[Recursion]

And actually, remember schools like to use IE because it's easy to centrally manage, if you don't code your site for IE too, then you immediately lose out on hundreds, possibly thousands of users.

[triston220]

No one said it was for a small group of people. You shouldn't just be a complete ass and stop IE users from viewing your site, it is the most used browser in the world :|

Only because it comes with most versions of Windows.

[Recursion]

Only because it comes with most versions of Windows.

That doesn't mean people should stop coding for it.

[HotelUser]

That doesn't mean people should stop coding for it.

If big companies agreed to stop coding for it then we could phase it out.

[Recursion]

If big companies agreed to stop coding for it then we could phase it out.

I dont want to move all of our school browsers over to something else, for the simple fact that Microsoft has done a damn awesome job at integrating it into Windows and making it easy to centrally manage through Group Policies, which IS NOT possible with something like FF or Chrome For e.g. If I want to change the proxy settings for a browser school-wide, I dont particularly want to have to download Firefox (or Chrome, FF is losing my faith), manually unpackage it, manually change all the settings and then manually repackage it into an MSI ready to deploy, it's just not worth the hassle when I could go into GPOs and edit a line in a nice GUI and not have to worry anymore.

[triston220]

That doesn't mean people should stop coding for it.

Didn't say they should.

[HotelUser]

If either of those browsers use thhe registry to save settings then this is not a problem. If they use XML then you could simply install Firefox on the computers to a shared directory?

I dont want to move all of our school browsers over to something else, for the simple fact that Microsoft has done a damn awesome job at integrating it into Windows and making it easy to centrally manage through Group Policies, which IS NOT possible with something like FF or Chrome For e.g. If I want to change the proxy settings for a browser school-wide, I dont particularly want to have to download Firefox (or Chrome, FF is losing my faith), manually unpackage it, manually change all the settings and then manually repackage it into an MSI ready to deploy, it's just not worth the hassle when I could go into GPOs and edit a line in a nice GUI and not have to worry anymore.