Internet Explorer 8

[Nick29]

The real cause of the problems with IE8 and other things has been touched on."Problems would be fixed when millions of Americans upgraded their computers" That's where Microsoft profits come from, the rest of the world are added extras for decoration only.

When I said "Problems would be fixed when millions of Americans upgraded their computers" I was referring to Ancestry, not Microsoft.

IE8 hasn't changed, but Ancestry has.  Ancestry has always had a reputation for rubbish page coding.

[Nick29]

I did say I didn't use Ancestry - but the company would not have achieved the success it has if its web pages did not work adequately on a number of browsers.

Clearly not !  Ancestry is favoured because of the range of information available, not because of the way that it is presented.

[GrahamH]

I did say I didn't use Ancestry - but the company would not have achieved the success it has if its web pages did not work adequately on a number of browsers.

Clearly not !  Ancestry is favoured because of the range of information available, not because of the way that it is presented.

Note that I did say "adequately". If the range of information was not presented adequately then it would not be used.

Anyway, I may well be off list for a few days - but, hopefully, when I get back Microsoft will have responded positively to my particular problem 

Graham

[Nick29]

Millions of Americans may be upgrading to IE8 but across the rest of the world millions of people are turning their back on IE completely.  In the UK almost as many people use Firefox as IE7&8, in the rest of Europe and Asia more people use Firefox than IE.

I dispute your figures.  Do you have any proof of them ?  Also, I'm sure that millions of people have downloaded Firefox - I am one of them, and which browser do I choose ? IE8.

I have no problems with Ancestry using Firefox, but then I have JRE which is needed for a variety of programmes and is kept up to date.

So do I, and when I tried Firefox (version 3) I could not get the Ancestry enhanced viewer to work.

OK, I confess, when I started on the internet I used Netscape, which at that time was at version 0.81 and I have always loathed Internet Explorer in all its versions, so I am biased.

I used Netscape too, and I was astounded to learn that one of the authors of the code was a 14 year old schoolboy  

[bikermickau]

I use/have used Firefox on 2 computers here, this one I mainly use has no problems wth Ancestry enhanced image viewer.

The other computer cannot install/download Ancestry enhanced image viewer correctly with FF, it keeps trying.
No problems using IE.

We did installed the latest IE on that computer, my stepdaughter, the main user of it uninstalled it as she didn't like it.

Seems mirosoft has failed with that 16 yr old also

[Redroger]

Perhaps they should change their corporate name to the one your typo gave them "mirosoft" they always seem to be in the mire.

[GOODDOG]

hi tomkin,
 sorry for the delay in replying to your question re avs.  Google said they were the 7 best avs. who told Google?.

regards
michael

[tomkin]

 Hi Michael,

   

sorry for the delay in replying to your question re avs.

   It's just that a lot of these polls etc. are often conducted by people

   who have a vested interest in the recommended ones. i.e. they either own them

   or have shares in them. That's why I always go to independent reviewers and

   even then you have to be careful.

    Tomkin

[Redroger]

Spot on Tomkin, I follow the advice given in PC World, the magazine not the shop, where products they are advertising often get slated in the reviews, and Jack Schofield in the Guardian technology supplement (Thurs)