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The issues with ie are not so much look and feel but compliance and adaption. There are a ton of awesome features on the web that aren't available to ie users regardless of the version they're on. My biggest complaint is push state support. Push state support gives the developer the ability to create an entirely new viewing experience for the user.
A good example of this is our pagination, gdgt.com/apple/ If you use a push state supporting browser(Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera) when you click next or prev to change the products the browser fires an ajax request and loads only the required products. Ajaxy pagination is nothing new, but this is where push state comes into play. First look at the url bar, the url has been updated to reflect the page you're currently viewing( gdgt.com/apple/page/2/ if you clicked next). This allows you to bookmark directly to that specific page. Now if you use your browser's back button, instead of doing a normal cached page request, another ajax request is fired retrieving the products you had requested.
I'm sure a front end web developer has a huge list of gripes with every browser, and I'm not demanding the adoption of every new web technology. But when there are 5 browsers and you're the only one not supporting a technology(javascript, html, or css) you have to ask yourself why.
A good example of this is our pagination, gdgt.com/apple/ If you use a push state supporting browser(Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera) when you click next or prev to change the products the browser fires an ajax request and loads only the required products. Ajaxy pagination is nothing new, but this is where push state comes into play. First look at the url bar, the url has been updated to reflect the page you're currently viewing( gdgt.com/apple/page/2/ if you clicked next). This allows you to bookmark directly to that specific page. Now if you use your browser's back button, instead of doing a normal cached page request, another ajax request is fired retrieving the products you had requested.
I'm sure a front end web developer has a huge list of gripes with every browser, and I'm not demanding the adoption of every new web technology. But when there are 5 browsers and you're the only one not supporting a technology(javascript, html, or css) you have to ask yourself why.
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Here's a weird observation about IE in Win8.
Why are there two IEs? The IE in Metro is totally separate from the desktop version.
I found it strange that I was surfing on the desktop version... brought up metro and IE and I was back to square one! Separate app!
Why are there two IEs? The IE in Metro is totally separate from the desktop version.
I found it strange that I was surfing on the desktop version... brought up metro and IE and I was back to square one! Separate app!
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