Unfortunately, Ashar, what people should use and what
they do use are
two different matters.
I'd like to add that, IMO, this is because people are largely unaware
of what they can use...
It is all well and good to be in favour of using Firefox and, I use
Firefox with pleasure HOWEVER, when used with texts in Farsi, and
Arabic IE is to be preferred, it allows me to upload soundfiles with a
name consisting of mixed alphabetic and arabic text. When reading a
Farsi text, the default size of texts is such that you can read the
characters with IE while they are almost unreadable because of their
small size with Firefox. Add to that this, the pesky upload symbol
that makes the first character unreadable and I must say that the case
for IE is overwhelming in favour.
Just saying that Firefox is better is plain stupid when the argument
IS that it does underperform. Saying that this "download figure" can
be fixed is nice but it does not help the case for Firefox until it is
fixed. So I am fully aware why there is a such a strong case for IE
and against Firefox when used with Farsi and propably Urdu, Arabic and
Hebrew.
Well, I learned something new today - never try to be funny on a
mailing list. Seriously, I was never referring to Firefox or any other
user-agent in particular (I for one regularly use three browsers - none
of which are IE or a Mozilla-brand derivative - for absolutely no
reason, not to mention various other programs that make use of the
internet). The people that I work with are just like that - they stick
to IE because they do not know of any alternative, and will stand by it
despite whatever flaws it may have. Of course, you have an equally
valid argument - I haven't have yet worked with a person who used any
language from the Middle East...
One thing I don't like too much about Firefox is its lack of support
for inline-block.