I hope you’re not reading this with Internet Explorer

If you ever built a website that is only useable with a specific browser you should be ashamed of yourself. Get a job where quality doesn’t matter, OK? Be a banker or something.

The Internets are awash with reports that the US and UK governments are recommending nobody use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser until CVE-2014-1776 is fixed.

And that’s great advice! Use Firefox or Chrome. They are free and work at least as well as Microsoft’s products do.

But various idiots have built systems that only work with IE… unsurprisingly, many of these idiots work for the government, and many of the systems that require IE were built with your tax dollars. A little more surprisingly, many of the hospitals I work with have purchased systems that require IE, although given the increasing reliance of modern medicine on high technology you’d hope that hospitals would know better than to buy any system that isn’t OS- and browser-agnostic. You’d hope in vain, unfortunately.

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