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missing details in internet explorer

published: 14-01-2011 / updated: 14-01-2011
posted in: development, programming, rants, tips
by Daniel Molina Wegener

Microsoft is huge company, it has very good resources, but can’t do good software — at least, good software for me — and probably you will notice which details are you missing by using Internet Explorer as your main browser. Did you ever used another browser on the Internet? Internet Explorer is hard to use, on every task that you know. It doesn’t supports a wide variety of standards that are being currently used by many sites.


css compatibility

Please read the following list — if you are technician enough to read it — which holds a detailed description of what is the compatibility level of Internet explorer with CSS: CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer. I don’t know if you are an Internet Explorer 9 user, but most people that I know is still using Internet Explorer 8.


border styles

You will miss the border-radius and the box-shadow CSS level 3 properties.

Other Browser

See the details in other browsers and compare how it looks in other browsers and then how it looks on Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer

On IE it looks really ugly.


face styles

You will miss the text-shadow and the font-smooth properties.

Other Browser

See the details in other browsers and compare how it looks in other browsers and then how it looks on Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer


readability issues

Just compare which one is more readable…

Other Browser

See the details in other browsers and compare how it looks in other browsers and then how it looks on Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer


the complete set of differences

Please change your browser. You can not imagine the amount of details that you are missing…

Other Browser

See the details in other browsers and compare how it looks in other browsers and then how it looks on Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer

Thanks to my friends that provide me some screenshots of IE.


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