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I.E./Coding
Topic Started: May 5 2008, 03:38 PM (584 Views)
Itachi69
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Okay I've come to realize that most coders that take on big projects say that one of their greatest challenges is to make it fully compatiable with I.E.

What make's coding so hard for this browser? Is there like limitation,restrictions on area's or what because I'm lost on the whole matter of what makes I.E. harder than any of the other broswers. :/
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Justin
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I think it is that IE isn't as compatible with certain codes than other browsers, which makes it a challenge to make it work with all browsers as they are all different with what is compatible with it. It's really confusing.
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It's because IE does not meet web standards. For example, it doesn't support XHTML (which is the next step above HTML 4.01). For this reason, it doesn't display many things like other browsers do (i.e. the proper way) and causes a headache for coders.

A pretty good example: on my site I was having trouble getting an image to display right on top of another with no gap in between. It worked fine in Firefox but IE kept the gap for some reason. I was pulling my hair out until Mike messed around with it and found that the problem was occurring because of the font I was using. :rolleyes:
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IE is a problem for graphics display too. For instance, PNG transparencies. IE6 does not support transparencies in the PNG file format. You have to find work-arounds. And no version of IE supports PNG animation---which is supported by FireFox3.
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just to clear some of this up...

IE is fully compatible with every single bit of PHP that FF and Safari and all of those other popular browsers are, ok...

IE sucks at JavaScript though...

Microsoft made it to where JavaScript can be used easier, such as traversing through the page...but, IE reads everything slower, and is just basic crap...

to get any new features for it, you have to pay for them...

and, it's not anywhere near as good for developers as FireFox either...

not only that, it is, by far, the slowest and crappiest browser that I have ever used...

I've used IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, and Safari 1, but, IE was always taking more time to load up web pages...

in fact, FF3 is about 50x faster than the current BETA of IE8...

not only that, IE8 will be the fastest yet...

it just kind of tells you the difference there...
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well php isn't compiled by the browser so it couldn't possibly have browser problems, php is compiled by the server and returns a clientside language such a html or javascript which is compiled by the browser
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