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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 19, 2005

“Recently, our church made the switch to a new Web hosting
service that offered us a database-driven site that we can keep
updated through a Web interface. Strangely enough, the Web
interface operates only under Internet Explorer, although it
appears to be written in PHP. I’ve tried using the interface with
both Firefox and Konqueror. It sort of works, but I need it to
really work, so I’m stuck with IE. (Maybe that’s why I’m the
church’s unofficial Web master.) After working with the world’s
most popular Web browser, I wonder why so many people put up with
it.

“Today was the first time that I put any serious effort into
working on the new site, so it was also the first time in a long
while that I had any face time with Internet Explorer version 6,
the most current release…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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