Browsers

Hi Developers!

As originally promissed, here's about the browsers.

The most popular browsers in use today are: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. Almost all of them supports latest inventions of current web desing World like html5 or css3 (with all their fancy functionality). They are easy to use, mostly portable and even have mobile versions for handheld devices like phones or tablets.

If you ask me which to use, for the starter I can say each one of them... except... the Internet Explorer.
Why?
Internet Explorer is made without consistency. I would love to ask Microsoft engineers why almost every page looks very weird on different version of their browser (while in other browsers changes are minimal if not none). It's a little awkward to see page looking reasonably fine in IE8 or 7, but things can quickly go from bad to worse with 6 and 5. More to that - if we include in our page nicely rotated images made in css3 they will be straight (not rotated) in Internet Explorer. Now that is a major disadvantage and Microsoft seems to be a step back to it's rivals. Ask any web development man and he will tell you - there's no other browser for which you have to specify different style sheet (for each version)! There's even a handy tag to do so.
You know why there's no such tag for Chrome, Firefox or Safari?
Answer: because these browsers are better and they don't need them.
In fact the changes required to the styles to make it - in browser language - "cross-platform" are limiting to slight changes which at the end of the day do not affect functionality nor appearance in a vital way.
But which is the best?
They all have good and bad sides and too be honest I'm using both Chrome and Firefox. Chrome for browsing, Firefox for development. I praise that you can get both in portable versions.
I think that Firefox is slightly better for web development because of it's extensibility (easy to install collorzilla, webdeveloper toolbar, firebug - I will write about those later on), speed (these addons work slower on my Chrome) and overall I generally like it.

The worse thing about this is that some people still use "old bad" Internet Explorer and make developers work hard for they money. Web Development People throughout the World would have easier life if not for Internet Explorer. Thank you Mr. Gates!