Yea, every browsers handles the rendering of pages different. So does Chrome and Firefox fix some of your mistakes automatic or takes conclusion out of itself if something is not defined in the code but seems obvious. That's why I like IE9 and above, this is the browser who doesn't got that handling and just do what you say for 100%, so if you do something wrong then the whole page won't show up. And sadly are most developers saying now that IE just doesn't follow your code and mess around itself with the page but in fact is the code that is not working correctly. I probably get buried in the ground by the people who say IE sucks for developers with what I just said but this is the truth. I have created own websites using Chrome before too and it didn't worked proper in IE, also the validator turned out like 20 errors on me. Once I went to use IE9 did I made websites using it. I had to learn a bit more of HTML/CSS at that moment to get the website working in IE9 but I did it and still can. The same page looked good in Chrome and the validator turned out 0 errors/warnings.
the minute i saw the tablet interface of windows 8 it was over for me!!! btw, i use internet explorer 9 only...very rarely opera...definitely not godzilla hirefox & never s(t)a(y)fari!!!
@smartboyhw 6006le chr0meyou are funny i was listing browsers that have been around for years not wannabe browsers!!!
I don't care about synthetic benchmark points. I need a browser which has good addons and runs everything. And FF is the best for me. Chrome has simply too less options....
I don't care what IE has init or how they made it shine after 12 years I'd never use browser thats integrated into OS for crying out loud MS recently made fix that disables gadgets and sidebar on vista and 7 because they are "security risk" now, and guess what? they work via STUPID IE the metro on 8 is another excuse for them to enforce this crap browser onto users
Amen. I am definitely spoiled by my selection of 30 addons I have installed in Firefox. I have had Chrome installed from time to time. I used it mostly when I had saved a bunch of windows and tabs in Firefox, but currently have it closed, and I don't want to open Firefox just to go to one webpage quickly, but I do that in IE, too.
By a long shot, the worst feature of Win8 is the irremediably cutesy-pie 2D-flatland in-your-face Metro UI. I wouldn't be surprised if MS does an about-turn for Win8 SP1 and brought back the good ol' Win7 style, at least as an option.
Hence, the WORST feature. Another OS, another "usability" paradigm, another nightmare for sysads. well, it keeps those folks in M$ in work ...
Many times I tried to use IE 9 as 'official secondary browser' but eventually, even this fails... They really have some functions with extremely good quality ( scrolling, hardware acceleration and some nice optimisations ) which none else can catch them, but still... IE lacks a lot of flexibility/usability features which makes me abandon the browser completely.
Seriously, who even uses IE any more? I haven't used that crappy browser since 2004 when Mozilla 1.0 came out.
To answer the question, who uses IE, 50% of the web surfing population uses IE, according to Net Market Share. Personally I like IE10, but the version of flash in it has problems and there is no update yet for it despite security flaws, so I'm trying out WaterFox, which is ok, but IE10 is faster on my system. Rendering pages is about the same speed, but IE10 opens faster, despite the fact that waterfox portable is installed on a ramdrive, along with its' profile, while IE10 is not. IE10 also handles opening many tabs with less lag, in fact almost none, but opening about 7 tabs in quick secession in Waterfox lags the UI. IE9 and especially IE10 are much better than previous versions, but the flash situation is disappointing. I also tried palemoon x64, it won't load except when run as admin, something about it's already running even after a fresh reboot. Really want to stick to a x64 browser at this point (nothing to do with memory, but instead to do with security, see: ASLR). If you just browse, and aren't hardcore into mods IE today is pretty decent. I'm messing with noscript but don't really care enough to use FF just because of that. I dunno, the browser question is not easily answered, so nothing to do but continue analyzing the situation.
better to ask why and when you get true answer the 30% goes for forced companies and 19% to regular "i wanna click & surf" users and 1% to those who are simply stubborn you think IE would get updated if CSS 2 didn't overcome the web and CSS 3 came out ? nope you'd be still on good old IE 8 which is somewhere as IE 6 which is worse than IE 5