No. No no no no no no no. “A more beautiful web is…” NOT POSSIBLE WITH INTERNET EXPLORER.
This is not some vain attempt to sound hip, cool, jive or get crunk. This is an attempt to inject some sanity and reason into this outright lie of a television advertisement. Internet explorer 9 (IE9) is uuuuuuuuuuugly. And when I say ugly, I mean really ugly.
Aside from my frustration with Microsoft promoting this garbage and the fact that it’s just horribly false, my other motivation is to avoid wasting any more of my life trying to make my sites look even remotely decent looking on Internet Explorer browsers (currently versions 6-9). On average, I probably spend an extra 8 hours on each of my site projects fixing not only visual errors with IE, but usability errors as well. This has got to stop.
Consider the following comparison…
See anything odd or strange? No? How about now?…
Still nothing? We’re screwed.