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To: Panerai
The minority of Mac users still browsing with Internet Explorer need to consider moving to another browser very quickly,

Why? Is it going to catch fire and explode?

If you haven't been using "more recent browsing technology such as Apple's Safari." , then you're not interested in changing things, so why do you need to change now?

5 posted on 12/19/2005 3:01:32 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
If you haven't been using "more recent browsing technology such as Apple's Safari." , then you're not interested in changing things, so why do you need to change now?

Here's a decent reason: IE isn't getting updated to fix security holes. So, if someone comes up with a new hack (for example, some kind of web address spoofing scheme), Safari or Firefox users will probably get a quick fix, whereas IE users won't get notified a problem exists.

The one bad side of this: some idiotic websites are hard-coded to only work with IE. I know, I could turn on the "debug mode" of Safari, and set the "user-agent" variable to read like IE, but it is easier to just fire up IE for those few sites.

8 posted on 12/19/2005 3:06:59 PM PST by Yossarian (The media is now simply running a 24/7 soap opera with Dubya cast as the arch villain.)
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