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Browser Compatibility
You've probably come here from one of our browser compatibility warning notices, and are quite possibly wondering why Internet Explorer 6 is considered an out of date browser by us. Well, we consider it out of date because it is out of date.
We wish to make use of standardised technologies which would make your browsing experience more pleasant, without having to employ workarounds just so that the one major browser which cannot cope with them (Internet Explorer) can accept them. Even then, though, these workarounds are not perfect; sometimes they make the page much bigger (more download time for you), or don't completely work around the problem, and they always add extra complexity to us. There are also other Internet Explorer-only problems in the new XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant version of the site, such as the inactive scrollbar on the ads, which cannot be worked around, but are only a problem in this single browser.
Internet Explorer 7 has vastly improved standards support, but it's still not as good as the other alternatives listed. In addition to this, it's only available for Windows XP SP2 and above, locking out users of Windows 2000, for example.
So why should you care? Simple: allaboutgames.co.uk will most likely always look worse in Internet Explorer than in the alternatives listed at the bottom of this page. This new version of allaboutgames.co.uk has taken a lot of effort to make it standards compliant, and our efforts are not fully displayed in Internet Explorer.
Aside from rendering bugs, there are other reasons why IE6 is not a good choice of browser. Many pieces of spyware and viruses install themselves stealthily via security holes in Internet Explorer. In addition to this, alternative browsers are often more powerful - all of the alternatives listed below have built-in RSS feed monitoring and tabbed browsing (an extremely useful feature once you get used to it), along with many more options.
Recommended Alternatives
We test our site in the following browsers:
- Mozilla Firefox. This is - in our opinion - your best choice. It's free, has many extensions ("plugins") avaialble for it, and is the main browser of most of the AAG team.
- Opera. Opera's main advantage is its speed - it's a very fast browser. Its main weakness is its lack of extensibility; it cannot be extended to the same extent that Firefox can.
