I use IE and I'm pretty sure that I'm a developer.
What makes you so sure that I'm wrong about the latter?
My other open window is running emacs; it's where I've been writing Python code for App Engine for the past few weeks. If that doesn't qualify me as a developer, please describe the requirements, as I've been writing code since the late 70s.
I've been a lurker for a while but this comment has prompted me to create an account.
Of course the previous poster is making a generalization. If you're in the minority of developers using IE, good for you.
Developers are usually smarter than to use a browser with appalling performance and a plethora of bugs (that never get fixed) when much better choices are just a few clicks away.
This is probably a troll, but i'm hitting reply anyway...
> Developers are usually smarter than to use a browser with appalling performance and a plethora of bugs (that never get fixed) when much better choices are just a few clicks away.
So the problem is that I'm "not smart" (enough). Okay - so I'll ask a dumb question. Are those the only relevant criteria for choosing a browser? Or, are they merely always dominant?
> This is probably a troll, but i'm hitting reply anyway...
To compare, I use a Mac and a FreeBSD box linked with synergy at work. Use uzbl on the FBSD box, safari on the Mac.
Frankly, I can't begin to fathom why you would willing use IE when the Chrome plugin, Firefox, Chrome itself, Safari, and various smaller webkit browsers are available to you.
I've never really seen the advantage of using Emacs unless you're a lisp hacker. Seriously. Also the keyboard shortcuts on Emacs are rather similar to a lot of the universal shortcuts on OS X, which you don't appear to use either.
So either potential mutual benefit you could derive from using Emacs is being left for dead.
Also, you're a developer and you're using the very browser that's holding back our ability to build universal and standards compliant web sites/apps? Seriously?
You're just a part of the problem, regardless of vocation.
As for editing, I use Textmate/Gedit for code, vi for unixy stuff.
>> Developers are usually smarter than to use a browser with appalling performance and a plethora of bugs (that never get fixed) when much better choices are just a few clicks away.
>So the problem is that I'm "not smart" (enough). Okay - so I'll ask a dumb question. Are those the only relevant criteria for choosing a browser? Or, are they merely always dominant?
rubs face Okay.
You're knowingly using a browser that is buggy, slow, insecure, and is holding back the entirety of the web app dev community.
Relevant criteria? That's all there is to the matter! Unless you're being paid to use that abhorrent bucket of bile I can't fathom a legitimate reason to utilize it as a developer. Standards compliance, stability, performance, security...yeah...uh, what else factors into your choice of browsers, the phase of the bloody moon?
