January 19, 2003
IE6 is broken
IE6 has something very wrong with it. I gave up on trying to use it, something in it is just not right. Unlike Mozilla's tendency to crash and quit at the slighest of XSLT/CSS errors, IE6 seems to flail about trying to stay running until all hope is lost. I've seen those "send error report" alert boxes way too many times.
I'm not sure what's worst, constant crash/quit/restart in Mozilla or lingering death in IE6. I'm tired of being the guinea pig and have gone back to use IE5.5. It runs longer than Mozilla but sensibly bails long before IE6.
I'd love to see a sampling of the bug reports IE6 sends during it's error reporting. I suspect there's one to two key concepts that are being miused on web pages that the browser just can't work around anymore. I'd have to imagine someone's tried to rewrite things according to specs and the real world mistakes are just impossible to support. But hey, that's true of most evolving software so it's not like I'm making a brilliant discovery or anything.
