Quote: "Can someone explain why people are so apt to firefox. I've read things on it, most of what is said is nonsense, or useless. But I still wonder why people like it."
I gues because it just works? It renders X/HTML about as perfectly as you can at the moment, without the need for hacks and work-arounds, IE specific "features" or semantically incorrect mark-up. Those for me are the best reasons, but I do agree, there is a strange fanboy mentality associated with it. It's probably because of the "It's cool to hate Microsoft" thing, which is kinda weird. I don't hate Microsoft - I love XP, I love Word, I love Excel - I just don't like IEs flagrant inabilities
Perhaps IE7 will fix these, I'll find out soon enough as we (TGC) received our official MS Longhorn Beta logins on Friday.
Quote: "I mean, someone once made a BIG fuss over that he stares at the computer screen all day and words are too small to read only firefox fixes this."
Well he's got a point, to a degree. In FF (and Opera I hasten to add) you can re-size all fonts to any scale you want, up or down. In IE you cannot and if the designer has used a fixed pixel sizing in the CSS then you can't even adjust the tiny amount it does allow. So yeah, for some people this IS an issue. For most people with 20/20 vision it's not so vital imho.
Quote: "Another was about how Firefox formats the webpage to your screen... Bad Programming is all that comes to mind. I mean you are suppose to propperly format your webpage by yourself. Some low level people are now making wacked out table formats to FORCE you to use firefox."
Formats it to your screen? Sounds like a bogus claim to me. It formats it to whatever the mark-up has been set to do, no more.
Quote: "And there is this thing about "wiggleing your mouse" to click a link. I really don't understand the point of that. Why not just click it. I can get anywhere in my screen without ever lifting, what purpose does "wiggling" serve?"
Mouse gestures are common in *lots* of software packages (including Windows itself), not just Firefox. I think Opera did it first, but then I've seen a gestures plugin for IE too. Personally I don't use them and don't really see the need, but that doesn't mean they're useless for some.
Quote: "I guess what I am trying to say is, is there any real functions in firefox that does anything? I don't mean I want to change the webpages to circus colors, but is there anything that is useful when it comes to actually surfing the web?"
As someone who spends all day developing for the web, FF is a breath of fresh air. The plugins are superb, extremely powerful. Tabbed browsing a god-send. Built-in RSS feeds are very useful. Fully skinable, neat Download manager, *smaller* memory footprint (IE with the 2 sites I'm viewing now open takes up 37MB of memory, FF with 3 open only 30MB - the exact same pages, plus 1 extra site). Rendering wise FF can actually handle CSS correctly and heck there are loads of other reasons, but I've been over them many times before. The new TGC site will work flawlessly on FF and IE, but if you use FF, you'll get some nice graphical extras, simple as that.
Cheers,
Rich
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
