# DEBATE : Developers, Do you prefer to develop for IE or Firefox? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [June 10, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debate-developers-do-you-prefer-to-develop-for-ie-or-firefox/262896 "2008-06-10T21:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BuG56](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BuG56](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BuG56)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debate-developers-do-you-prefer-to-develop-for-ie-or-firefox/262896/1 "2008-06-10T21:34:18Z")
[FONT=Verdana]Hello all, I was wondering what the Web Designers around here thought about this topic. To start off, I am an avid Firefox fan. I love everything about it, and it’s my standard browser. If something works in IE only, Then I just use IE Tab, an extension for firefox that allows you to switch to the IE rendering engine inside of firefox. Get that here :[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419) As much as I love firefox, It’s a pain in the arse to develop for. A lot of CSS stubbornly won’t work, and god forbid a simple javascript code works! But in IE, everything runs smooth as velvet. So when I’m working on a little something for fun, I develop in IE. That’s probably the only time I use it. I’m pretty sure there was an online petition/following that is demanding that IE becomes compliant with Firefox’s standards. I think it should be the other way around. Well, what’s your opinion? [/FONT] ---
**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debate-developers-do-you-prefer-to-develop-for-ie-or-firefox/262896/2 "2008-06-10T21:46:50Z")
Why the weird font and why would you ever want to develop specifically for a browser? I develop something that works and then I break it so it works in IE generally. ---
**Author:** ![Anogar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debate-developers-do-you-prefer-to-develop-for-ie-or-firefox/262896/3 "2008-06-10T21:50:50Z")
What kind of dumb question is that, and why is IE’s giant non-standards compliant manjunk so far down your throat? :stare: I think it’s pretty much a general consensus among qualified web developers that Firefox works more or less how it should, and that IE (especially 6) is a pile of dung when it comes to xHTML strict development. ---
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debate-developers-do-you-prefer-to-develop-for-ie-or-firefox/262896/4 "2008-06-10T21:51:33Z")
I’ve gotten to the point where I know it won’t work in firefox or it won’t work in another browser so I just do it the way I know it will work and reuse that a for consistency. IE7 is decent and FF is not much better so its hit and miss give it a few more years when XHTML is standard and such and we all will be better off viewing wise. //edit, I think we all have IE tab installed. Meh I use it less and less though. ---
**Author:** ![Esherido](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/esherido/32/2158_2.png) [@Esherido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esherido)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debate-developers-do-you-prefer-to-develop-for-ie-or-firefox/262896/5 "2008-06-10T22:14:17Z")
All browsers aren’t compliant. IE is the worst of them; I don’t see why you would actually like developing in IE. And what’s with the weird font? ---
**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/debate-developers-do-you-prefer-to-develop-for-ie-or-firefox/262896/6 "2008-06-10T23:05:19Z")
> As much as I love firefox, It’s a pain in the arse to develop for. A lot of CSS stubbornly won’t work, and god forbid a simple javascript code works! But in IE, everything runs smooth as velvet. What planet are you from, and what free drugs do they distribute?