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PC World Canada recently put up a list of the 25 worst computer products ever made. It’s quite a fun read, and can be found here.
What tops the list? What else: American Online.
But one entrant that is of particular interest to web designers, clocking in at number 8: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x.
With its neverending list of security vulnerabilities, ghastly support of CSS, and Microsoft’s obnoxious insistence on forcing any Windows user to have it crammed down their throat, why shouldn’t it be on the top list of worst computer programs?
I hear other web designers, when dealing with IE’s shortcomings, hasten to say they’re not “browser snobs”. It doesn’t require snobbery to hate Internet Explorer 6. It just takes common sense.
We shall see if IE 7 makes the hideous shortcomings of 6 a dim and particularly unpleasant memory from the past. I have some doubts (like the fact that CSS support is still lagging behind the other browsers, for no reason), but if for nothing else, I will welcome IE 7 as the means to put IE 6 at last to rest. Hopefully forever.