Flashes of Panic

Julie points out a new site:

I think this is a good thing. Up until now, most of the voices calling for wider support of browser standards and greater security were vindictive, shrill, or both, to some degree. Mine included, as I din on about what a frustrating piece of dry peat IE can be. This is much softer, more positive: “Here, look, the grass really is greener over here!” I like it. I notice that the betterbrowser.org site has taken a more positive approach as well.

I do have to laugh at this story, though, from a Microsoft presentation at a conference:

Anyway, the presenter was doing his pitch in a polished way and at one point he said he wanted to show us a “really cool” feature and he looked up into the audience and said “Show of hands…How many of you use Internet Explorer?” Probably 99 times out of 100 when he asks that question all the hands go up, right? Well first there was a pause and then a giggle and then a whoop of laughter as the audience looked around and realized that NO ONE had raised a hand. The presenter was thrown off his mark, but he recovered and said, “Wow! Okay how many of you wish we’d fix IE so you could use it?”

Still no hands….

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