23 jan 2012

websites keep telling me to upgrade my browser, but i have seen the future, and it's not pretty. this here is IE8 and that's as far as i care to go. at work i am still using IE7. besides a weird tendency to completely mangle the favicon collection, and of course an inability to consistently open sites anymore, IE7 is a doll. a DOLL. on the other PC here at home we have... i don't know... IE10 maybe? what a piece of crap. when you open a new tab, there's no telling where it will end up, and that's just loopy. new tabs should appear to the starboard of the tab list. you cannot move toolbars - loopy again. you could move toolbars before there even was such a thing as tabs, before they started couting the versions. srsly, microsoft. wtf? at work, we don't get to pick. we have to use IE7 because of some browser-based software compatibility, but i am not arguing. IE7 is the best of the IEs, in my arrogant opinion. due to the ubiquity of the internet, the web, browser-based software, the "cloud" (ppfthth!)... a browser is my most-used desktop app. why can't i have one that works in a sensible manner? yeah, whatever with your chrome and your firefox and your ubuntu. whatever! i was there at the dawn of IE. remember when the gateway to the internet was AOL? huh? do ya?? IE's functionality is second nature to me, and nothing increases productivity like knowing your tools. i don't want to spend my time learning tools - i want to be productive.