{"id":21,"date":"2004-06-16T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2004-06-16T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T15:57:08","slug":"why-you-should-dump-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who did so some time ago, I was interested to read Daniel Miessler&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/channels.lockergnome.com\/news\/archives\/20040615_why_you_should_dump_internet_explorer.phtml\">Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer<\/a>&#8216; article over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockergnome.com\/\">Lockergnome<\/a>.  I have to say that he makes a fair and cogent argument, highlighting the issues that continue to bug folks about the world&#8217;s most used browser.  Likewise, there are many good points made in the online discussions and forums that have taken up the story, like those in the thread over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecademy.com\/node.php?id=25128\">Ecademy<\/a>, pointing up the necessity of using IE to action Windows Updates (clever thinking, MS though one can configure auto-updates via Control Panel unless I am much mistaken) and to view those sites code-biased to it&#8217;s own non-standard display.  In making this last point, one person commented that IE is pretty much essential for online banking sites.  I beg to differ, as I regularly use The Cooperative Bank&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co-operativebank.co.uk\/\">online banking service<\/a> via the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\">Firefox browser<\/a> without a hitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who did so some time ago, I was interested to read Daniel Miessler&#8217;s &#8216;Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer&#8216; article over at Lockergnome. I have to say that he makes a fair and cogent argument, highlighting the issues that continue to bug folks about the world&#8217;s most used browser. Likewise, there are many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}