My primary browser is Opera, on Win2000. But I find that some sites — mostly commercial sites (we’re shopping for a car so I’m spending some time on auto manufacturers’ over-designed pages) — don’t work well on that combination. No problem, that’s why I keep IE on my computer too. Fire up IE and the sites should work, right? Only lately I’ve noticed that virtually every site that uses a Javascript popup window of any kind breaks my IE. OK, time to upgrade, I figured — I’d been resisting going from IE 5.5 to IE 6 but I took the plunge. No go; I’m having the same problem. Today I downloaded Mozilla and I’m finding that, well, some sites work OK but others are even less compatible than they were on Opera.
Something is badly wrong here. I’d always assumed that the problem was that sites were being designed not to the rules ordained by Web standards codes but instead to the workings of IE, Microsoft’s monopoly browser. But these sites crash IE and don’t work on the standards-compliant Opera, either! If anyone out there has any insights into this mess, send them to me and I’ll share them.
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