You lazy f****rs

Unlike my husband and most of his friends, I don't view Microsoft products as something to be consigned to the ninth circle of hell (or whichever circle Dante would have stuck windows-based software applications). I find most of the MS Office apps v usable, especially Word and Excel.

However, I have to say that I am a Firefox user - when using the Internet, I'd rather use this than the buggy and unsafe IE. I'm sure that I'll be a victim of credit card fraud at some time, I would just like to keep that day in the future for as long as possible by not using IE.

Anyway, the reason for today's rant is people who make websites solely for IE. Yes, I know that the vast majority of pc users use IE, as opposed to Firefox, Opera etc, but I find it lazy in the extreme to assume that *everyone* uses it.

I've lost count of the number of websites that don't work properly in Firefox - today's example being Delia Online. I'm just going to whip up a plate of flapjacks for Number 1 son, but I've had to view it in IE instead, because in Firefox you get a blank white column through the left part of the recipes.

When I worked for Interactive Operations at the BBC, our webmasters routinely tested new BBC web pages against all the major browsers, as well as retrospective versions. Good practice indeed.

So come on you lazy fuggers, start testing your code against other sites than blinking IE and stop discriminating against those people who don't automatically trust the MS offering.

Right, time for flapjacks.