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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by kenjackson on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @12:46PM (#1839374)
IE is actually not so bad at the web. At least not for the end user (argument about stifling development and innovation aside). As a user of IE, I actually have a better experience with IE than I do with Chrome w/ the sole exception being performance. I'm sure there are sites that don't work on IE, but honestly the only ones I've ever seen are those posted here on HN :-)

With that said, everything I've heard from people in MS (and some who work on IE) is that this is the first time in MS's history where their goal is to actually make IE the best web browsers against the standards. They are targeting to be able to legitimately say that the best platform for HTML5 apps is IE. Only time will tell on that.

But I do think it is naive to think a phone will fail because it is based on the worlds most popular web browsing engine. Any more than a phone might fail because it has no physical keyboard, no 3G support, no Flash, and no native apps.

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by Yaggo on Thursday October 28, 2010 @08:50AM (#1842643)
> As a user of IE, I actually have a better experience with IE than I do with Chrome --

Guess how much extra work it has required from the web developers.

> -- it is based on the worlds most popular web browsing engine

The fact that IE ships with every Windows PC makes it the most used browser, definitely, but not "most popular web browsing engine". Browser engines are used by browsers (or developers), not by end-users, and by that definition I would call WebKit the most popular engine.

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by simonw on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @04:34PM (#1840341)
Any chance you could expand on what makes you prefer the experience of using IE over Chrome?
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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by kenjackson on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @05:22PM (#1840504)
With Chrome I occassionally run into problems. For example, there was a time when I couldn't get my Amazon cart to work with Chrome. I popped open IE and it just worked. My bank used to not work with Chrome, but now does. I recently had a site where the links in the sidebar weren't clickable, but I know I had clicked them before. Went to IE and it worked.

Printing is also really hit or miss. Weird font sizes, or sometimes blank areas. Not browsing proper, but still worth mentioning.

Admittedly this doesn't happen often, but enough for me to notice.

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Re:CNN Money: Microsoft is a Dying Consumer Brand by face on Thursday October 28, 2010 @07:09PM (#1845359)
I've never had those problems that you mention with Chrome or Firefox. On the other hand, I've had a lot of fun cleaning up Vundo and other malware due to the use of IE.
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