Rants And Raves Blog:

by LOCRIAN — published on April 6th, 2006

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  1. LOCRIAN says:
    April 11th, 2006 at 12:06 pm

    My letter at http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=47208&cpage=44#feedbackAnchor in regaurds to the Browser debate

    I have to say that anyone in defense of IE is ill informed. This fight isn’t about the end user of the sites. Your right,99% of the people out there have no idea what w3c compliance is and doesn’t care. It’s about the developers that have to make concessions for a non compliant browser and the added time it takes us.

    But…If you wanna talk about the user end of this lets look at an exert from www.schneier.com.
    [quote]
    This study( http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/page.php?name=STATS2004 ) is from August, but I missed it. The researchers tracked three browsers (MSIE, Firefox, Opera) in 2004 and counted which days they were “known unsafe.” Their definition of “known unsafe”: a remotely exploitable security vulnerability had been publicly announced and no patch was yet available.

    MSIE was 98% unsafe. There were only 7 days in 2004 without an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole.

    Firefox was 15% unsafe. There were 56 days with an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole. 30 of those days were a Mac hole that only affected Mac users. Windows Firefox was 7% unsafe.

    Opera was 17% unsafe: 65 days. That number is accidentally a little better than it should be, as two of the upatched periods happened to overlap.

    This underestimates the risk, because it doesn’t count vulnerabilities known to the bad guys but not publicly disclosed (and it’s foolish to think that such things don’t exist). So the “98% unsafe” figure for MSIE is generous, and the situation might be even worse.[/quote]

    So beyond the fact the browser is compliant, it’s also unsafe. But these same people that sit in IE’s corner are also the same ones that don’t know enough to not get viruses/trojans/keylogers because there just not well enough informed or knowledgeable enough to know the difference.

    Locrian April 11, 2006

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