Can You See This?

I'm an aficiondo of web browsing (not unlike many other people). I've used--not all the functions of, but extensively--in order of date of my first introduction to them: Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Firebird, Safari, Opera, Mozilla Firefox 2, Google Chrome, amongst others.

I don't understand why (in my ranking of web browsers) Microsoft Internet Explorer is last place.

Quickly writing down two reasons for my saying so about IE:

• cannot drag a link to an existing browser tab
• IE 6 and IE 7 run slower than current versions of Firefox or Opera--even though IE comes from the same company as the operating system on which I'm running it during these comparisons. Maybe the injunctions from Microsoft antitrust cases have had actual effects...
  

And let me note that while at one time I hated Microsoft for killing Netscape, I'm well past that. Today I greatly appreciate many things about Microsoft. I am inspired by what Bill Gates and founders created in Microsoft and also by what Gates has done in his life, and I have a number of other esteemed friends who are or have been associated with Microsoft.

So this posting is not made from a "religious" position. I am writing as a personal appeal to the IE team: get something out there that we can be proud of. Until then, I am going to be using IE as a last resort.


But in limited application, I can live with Internet Explorer. After all, it does at least display this blog =).