Why IE Sucks

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, every internet browser displayed websites in its own way. Every website looked different to every user because each internet browser rendered the markup in different ways. Then a group of wise Jedi joined together and called themselves the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Eventually, several standards were established to tell browsers how each webpage should look. They defined the general characteristics of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It took some time, but slowly the various browser developers fell into line. This allowed web developers to produce cool websites even faster because they only had to worry about writing according to the standards.

However, all was not grand in this internet galaxy for a malevolent Sith lord was about. He is known to history as Darth Gates, and he founded an evil empire called Microsoft. They created their own web browser, but refused to play by the rules created by the W3C. Rebel forces allied against the empire under the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) banner. Their fight has been slow, but is gaining momentum in the past few years. Because of the FOSS Republic, web developers have alternatives to Internet Explorer. Most prefer to play a neutral role by catering to both the standardized FOSS Republic browsers and the Empire’s IE.

I, on the other hand, refuse to bow before such reckless abandonment as has been undertaken by the Empire. There are more important things to waste my time on than making a website look exciting for every browser. Thus, I have chosen to neglect browsers not following the standards. If you notice things looking bad or out of place, you might try an alternative web browser to see if you get better performance. One of the more popular cross-platform choices at the moment is Mozilla Firefox. If you would like to continue to visit my site using a broken browser, please ask the browser developer to release a future version which follows the W3C standards when rendering webpages.