First things first you have to go check out this mock IE Web site to see how the designers made it look like the Mozilla Firefox Web site. This has got to be one of the most amusing things I’ve seen in a while. Funniest thing is that it is all true.
Internet Explorer – We Discover the Web!
Popup Blocking
Stop annoying popup ads in their tracks with IE’s built in popup blocker (SP2 only).
Tabbed Browsing
Screw that. It will only confuse basic users, so instead of making it an option, we just didn’t implement it at all. Oh wait… there goes our browser market share. Our next release will have tabs.
Privacy and Security
You think we got security holes? That’s just because people are always gunning for number one. Take a look at that article up there. Now that people use Firefox, magically it has flaws too.
Fits Like a Glove
We know exactly how big your hand is. Well we at least have a pretty good idea. I mean, come on. We do control your entire operating system already.
S, M, L or XL—It’s Your Choice
As long as your choice is Microsoft’s choice.
A Developer’s Best Friend
Because all the developers work for us. And we pay them… so they’d better be our best friends.
One of the main things that angers me about Internet Explorer is the fact that it seems like Microsoft thinks it owns the Internet and should control how it looks to everybody. Instead of following your basic Web standards, they have a bad habit of just making up code that only works in IE so that anybody else on the outside of the Internet Explorer world has to conform or get out of the way.
