Really. How many times do I have to curse internet explorer. Same thing as usual. I'm working on a site design and IE keeps breaking it. IE just does not implement CSS properly. And I suppose since redmond doesn't currently see IE as strategic technology it can leverage to continue domination of the world (they've moved on), there isn't likely going to be a release of a fixed IE any time soon.
Yes yes - there are work arounds to my CSS issues- but there is no reason I should have to do an ugly f*&king hack just to make something look right.
f*&k. F^%k. F!$K!!!
andre
p.s. that last one says FUCK not FISK.
Posted by andre at January 10, 2005 11:04 PMAs recent as 1 month ago Microsoft reinstated their IE development team, and they seem to have something in the works. Responsive & stable DHTML is a threat to their business model, though, so don't expect too much.
Posted by: derek at January 11, 2005 10:07 AMOops. I should have explained. It's a threat to their business model because web-based application do not require Windows to run. They run equally well on Mac and Linux. They empower the user to use whatever OS they want. There is no "web based office suite" yet, but there will be. Heck, it might even come about as part of OpenOffice, or as a Mozilla Project (like Sunbird).
Posted by: derek at January 11, 2005 10:10 AMThe problem is worse than that. IE's flaws actually promote IE further.
I like to use Opera and it bugs me the number of sites that don't work with it because the developer of the site has only tested against IE.
In order to use one of these sites you then need to either switch to IE compatibility mode or actually use IE. Either of these will mean you start turning up in that site's logs as an IE user. This then means that the site developers start saying things like “Our logs show that very few people use Opera, hence there is not much cost benefit in supporting it”.
Posted by: Martin Brown at January 30, 2005 09:50 AM