Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

Check out iesucks.com/ which redirects immediately to the Get Firefox page:

The WHOIS information for this domain returns:

Michael Fagan
P.O. Box 24556
Clearwater, FL 33765
727-726-8749

I can’t identify which of the many Mike Fagan’s this is. However, check out mozillasucks.com/ which redirects to the Internet Explorer page:

The WHOIS information is:

Domains by Proxy, Inc.

Registered through: SilverAge Studios.net
Domain Name: MOZILLASUCKS.COM

Contrary to what the digg story suggests, neither of these sites are officially endorsed.

Too Cool is definitely anti IE: they provide you with photoshop templates and banners that read, “Too cool for IE,” and want you to link it to a page of theirs offering a list of alternative browsers. Well, a few minutes in photoshop will let you produce “Too cool for Firefox” tags for your page, too:

Once you’ve downloaded this image, just add the following html after your body tag:

<a id="tooCool" href="http://spreadIE.com" title="Spread Internet Explorer">Too Cool for Firefox</a>

You’ll also need the CSS:

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
a#tooCool {
position: fixed;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
display: block;
height: 80px;
width: 80px;
background: url(<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/wp-content/toocoolforfirefox.png) bottom right no-repeat;
text-indent: -999em;
text-decoration: none;
}
</style>

Every little bit of IE-support helps!

There are few things that annoy me about IE 7.00.5112. First off, it’s not all that great. I just don’t feel overwhelmed when I run it, you know? I definitely had high expectation when I downloaded it, but those are all in vain. Instead, I have the following Internet Explorer 7 gripes:

1) The base color of the tabs is different than the rest of the application’s base color:

2) The tabs bar has an extra tab nubbin to open a new tab:

3) The refresh button has been placed seemingly randomly:

4) The standard windows UI layout of putting the file menu at the top has been broken. The file menu is now underneath the tabs:

5) The phishing filter makes no attempt to prevent me from reporting Microsoft.com:

Phishing Filter Feedback: Confirmation
Thank you for reporting www.microsoft.com/ as a suspected phishing site. Your feedback is important and helps us to better protect customers from phishing.

You can read more about their laughable filter here: msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/IETechCol/dnwebgen/MSPhishingFilterWP.asp

6) The phishing filter thinks submitting user information via POST is bad:

7) Internet Explorer will close when you hit close, no matter how many tabs you have open. You can even watch it kill the tabs one by one on a slower machine:

The search is automatically Google. Why doesn’t the IE Team promote MSN? The tagline here is “Microsoft loves Google:”

9) There is a lot of wasted space on the links bar. For some reason, every link appears to have a min-width setting that makes them overly wide. So, the links bar that was half empty before in IE6 is now running off the screen:

For some other interesting takes on IE7, you can read Is Internet Explorer 7 blocking Google?, IE7 CSS Updates, Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 Tips & Tricks, and The Real Reason Microsoft Won’t Support CSS2 in IE7.