[Closed] IE user = low IQ?

The report has sparked anger from IE supporters, who have threatened AptiQuant with legal action.

It makes sense though, because you have to make an active choice to use something else, which implies a certain amount of technical knowledge.

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ie-usersthick-as ]I guess the OP is an IE user.[/url] 😉

I use Opera and I'm a 'kin idiot.

aracer, my thoughts exactly. IE is just there, ready and waiting for its hapless victims.

Sorry to disappoint Don, Chrome all the way (though I did indeed fail at using the forum search function...)

In that article, it says that an IQ in the 80s is...

That's borderline deficient, marginally able to cope with the adult world

[url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-%26-technology/if-you%27re-using-internet-explorer%2c-this-is-called-a-%27website%27-201108034150/ ]Daily Mash take on it[/url] 🙂

I've just installed Opera as I have some tricky business meetings to plough through later

On a serious note, as a web designer, I really hope this gets in the press and makes it into the mainstream conciousness and people stop using IE.

It's so incredibly bad that every single version 6,7,8 and 9 are all broken in different ways. All needing specific code just for them. Wheras Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera all just 'work'.

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430 ]All a hoax apparently - BBC[/url]

A few years ago one of my development teams delivered a new customer-facing website on t'net. As usual I was first in the office - the website didn't work.

I rang my lead developer (he was more a 10am man...).

To cut a long story short, it seems all the development team were obviously of a far higher IQ than I, and they hadn't actually tested it in IE...

Some epic trolling there then!

Surely it's mac user = low iq

I love a good hoax. I'd love them to find that it was set up by one of their competitors 🙂
More likely it's just a bunch of disgruntled developers, faced with having to go back through all their legacy websites to make them work on IE9.

Hoaxes aside, you really would have to be a bit numb to like IE.

We can't get anything above IE6 at work!

My company (one of the world's largest financial services providers) only moved away from IE 6 a month or two ago. To IE 8. Woo.

We got upgraded this week from Lotus Notes! 6.5 to 8.5! Go us!

More likely it's just a bunch of disgruntled developers

that's how it read to me, the last couple of paragraphs certainly.

As its a hoax, doesn't it just prove the opposite? That is all those who thought that their delusions of superior intelligence was supported by browser choice was undermined by the fact they believe anything written on the web?

As its a hoax, doesn't it just prove the opposite?

No.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ie-usersthick-as

I'm saying nothing.