Friday, July 8th, 2005, 2:29 am
Fixing the Bugs for Browser Developers
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odern browsers are among the more complex pieces of software in existence. Because browsers are expected to treat similar data (the World Wide Web) and behave consistently, there is plenty of room for bugs to crop up. Big trouble lies ahead if a browser is re-released infrequently or no updates are made available, apart from the critical. This is probably the main catalyst to the “Don’t click on the blue E” campaign.
Web developers spend extra time trying to compensate for Internet Explorer bugs. In css-discuss, for example, almost half of all questions (if not more) concern browser compatibility, fixes and hacks. Internet Explorer is often the culprit. Rather than fixing/hacking around IE bugs, perhaps we should all upgrade to a browser that is actively maintained and released to the public. There is no doubt as to how fed up development communities have become with IE, which for most users ships by default.
