Comments on: ALA Recommends IE?

By: AL Inside Scoop » Midwinter Event Planner Blues

AL Inside Scoop » Midwinter Event Planner Blues — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:00:24 +0000

[...] has been opened… and widely panned on the ALA Council email list and several library blogs (What I Learned Today… and librarian.net, as two [...]

By: Robert Dowd

Robert Dowd — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:00:00 +0000

You must not know many librarians!

By: Jenny Levine

Jenny Levine — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:25:53 +0000

Thanks for blogging about this, Nicole. We’ll be working on this (see trackback above).

By: ALA Marginalia » Blog Archive » It’s Been a Tough Start to the New Year at ALA….

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:17:17 +0000

[...] service, clearly this tool still isn’t what it should be. We got some valuable feedback from Nicole Engard and Jessamyn West that noted other concerns, such as a notice that the site recommends Internet [...]

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:57:56 +0000

The exact quote was “No librarians that I know use Internet Explorer … not unless they’re forced to by their IT staff.” Everyone I talk to who is using IE says they’d love to try Firefox, but they’re not allowed to.

By: walt crawford

walt crawford — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:06:24 +0000

“No librarians that I know use Internet Explorer ”

OK, Karol already said it: You must not know many librarians.

Have you looked at your own usage numbers?

I’m delighted that, for the site I care most about, 28% of sessions are from Firefox–but 64% are from IE. And, just offhand, I’m guessing that 99% of those sessions are from librarians.

(Given that, I agree that it’s dumb to optimize a site for IE. Or for Firefox, for that matter, even though that’s what I use 90% of the time.)

By: Karol Bell

Karol Bell — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:57:31 +0000

You must not know many librarians.

I belong to a local law librarian group of approximately 30 members. Almost all of us use IE, mainly because we work in corporate environments that require us to use IE. Plus most of our IT managers will not let us download anything without permission due for security purposes.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:05:05 +0000

Julian, I’m not really “hating on” ALA – just complaining that there are still sites like this out there – and that this one happens to be outsourced by librarians – there are other options out there

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:44:02 +0000

Since this particular service is outsourced, I can’t completely hate on ALA, or accuse them of FAIL. But still… a web site should be designed for fully functional use with a web browser, not with an extension of a platform.