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Browser non-issues

This is something that I have known for some time now but I thought I should make a blog post about this because I saw some interesting data in my site analytics.

What’s happening:

- Some visitors on arriving to the site, seem to reload the site twice or even three times.

What I’m pretty sure (quite sure actually) is happening:

- People who are doing this are using Internet Explorer.

Possible reaction after multiple reloads :

“OMFGZ!! THIS BLOG SUCKZ!!! CAN’T DISPLAY IT PROPERLY!!”

Or they just calmly leave. Meh.

What you should do to solve this issue:

Get a better browser.

Names of some awesome browsers (in order of personal preference):

- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Opera

Why are these browsers awesome?

They are standards compatible. They are able to render all HTML4 (even some HTML5!) and CSS3 based web pages properly. This is something that Internet Explorer cannot do.

There are multitudes of other reasons why they are better, but that’s for another blog post.

Can’t you fix your site’s code to work with Internet Explorer?

I can’t since I’m not a web designer. And even if I was able to I wouldn’t.

I hope that clears some things up. Or not since IE users can’t even see this post properly. Talk about irony.