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I think they recognize that "pro-surfers" need more functionality that IE provides and they will eventually accomidate us.
Keep in mind, the whole program is still very much Beta.
I consider my self a professional, and I use IE. I don't like Firefox nor Opera.
Matt
All those in favor of FireFox support, say 'Aye.'
Aye
Any suggestions?
What kind of backwards thinking would result in a product aimed at webmasters, but not accomodating the browser that a great percentage of them use?
come on everyone is on the growing popularity of using FF now, and I've tried IE7 and I think FF will still be the tabbed browser leader (not to mention its other great features). Biggest reason yet we dont use the msn roi code because its inability to work with FF.
With our analytics tools, we see this in our client's customers. If the product is a low-end consumer product, Firefox users are 1% or so. If it's a technical product, an expensive product, or similar, Firefox users jump up to 20-40%.
MSN should add support for Firefox. The browser wars are over. It's the search wars now.
And not to stray too far off topic, I also vote AYE for Firefox support. Although, with IE Tab installed, it doesn't make a lot of difference to me. ;)
Note that they are forcing browser AND OS. While that's fine where most of you are starting from an MS OS, for those of us running Linux or Mac as their desktop it's a bit more problematic to run IE.
We use Firefox for various plugins that help us analyze websites. Also because it's our JOB to tell our clients when their web sites are 10% less productive than they should be.
I can fit Firefox on a USB stick - complete with plugins - and scare the pants off clients when they see their site outside IE. May want to try finding out what it does by downloading and trying it AdCentre411 :)
Brett might be able to tell you what percentage of WebmasterWorld users don't use IE - may be a surprise. True - we are not representative of the public, but we ARE representative of AdCentre's early user base.
go on...say Aye!, boys
Hmmm... somehow... can't say that. Reason is very simple. People that are buyers on our site primarily use IE. People that copy our content and try to harm our business in various ways are using primarily FF! You tell me, how can I say "Aye"?
It is not the people seeing the ads that are the problem - it is they techie marketers that are using the back end interface... namely us.
As far as functionality, I had not used IE in months until I started with ad-center. I am not exactly sure what FF isn't function with.
It is not the people seeing the ads that are the problem - it is they techie marketers that are using the back end interface... namely us.
AYE
Just my $0.04 (inflation)
Kay
After all, at least 90% of the public and web-surfers use IE so the webmaster always needs to see exactly what the public sees and experiences, especially so when designing or running websites and giving support.
IMO you should stive to make your site and work 100% compatible with the #1 browser and forget all about the little used Firefox.
make your site and work 100% compatible with the #1 browser
Not possible. Each port and every configuration and version of that browser has its own rules ... not the standards. At the risk of getting off-topic, check out the CSS forum (and many other resources, including MS documentation) for issues regarding anything having to do with margins and padding and nested structures that use them. Of course every professional in these threads tests to see what kind of funk IE is inflicting on their well-coded pages, however it is not necessary to use that security-hole-riddled product as one's primary browsing tool.
This thread (IMHO) is a plea for MS to work to the standards everyone else is using and to acknowledge that many professionals use products other than MS products (read: Mac, Linux).
