Comments on: How to Uninstall Internet Explorer

By: hzane

hzane — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:07:07 +0000

You know what else annoys me? Commenters like these last 2 who point out the painfully obvious as if it was some useful wisdom. I wonder how smug the look on Stuart Mack’s face was when he finished typing that post..

By: hzane

hzane — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:02:29 +0000

Microsoft has a hundred billion dollars and they can’t build in a decent script debugger. Are they still in denial about javascript being here to stay? I have trouble believe they are this dumb – and no problem believing that their business strategy drives their technical decisions in ways which seem inexplicable to us but made sense to Steve Ballmer or whoever. Of course i am pissed right now, because i a troubleshooting an issue that only exists in IE. Pissed enough anyway to google “internet explorer is garbage” just so that i could read about others who share my pain..

By: FettesPS

FettesPS — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:27:50 +0000

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I certainly don’t disagree with what you are saying here. I have Internet Explorer installed on all of my Windows machines, I even have it installed on my Linux machines. Why? For testing websites of course. This article was not aimed at developers who want to ignore its existence, rather it was meant for people who need only one browser on their system. Many users simply use what’s easiest, if there’s a shortcut to IE on their desktop they’ll use that, if IE doesn’t exist on their system then they wont use it. I have removed it from many machines for this reason and provided them with a better browser. Another example of where this guide is useful is when you’ve upgraded to a newer version only to discover it has messed up other programs on your system, in that case it would be very beneficial to downgrade to an older version.

By: Stuart Mac

Stuart Mac — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:06 +0000

As a developer you need it precisely because you need to test it’s poor behaviour. Eliminating it from your machine and then dusting your hands off in satisfaction doesn’t eliminate the fact that a large majority of web users still use some version of IE.
So once you sit back with a smug grin on your face, you’re going to realise you need to re-install it to do proper testing for 80-90% of the web population.
Nice one.