Yesterday, while troubleshooting IE PC stupidity on a site I was working on, I felt like crushing Bill Gates’ head. I’m not much for anti-PC ranting, but honestly, why is it that the richest man in the entire world cannot simply hire a small army of nerds with stock options and say “fix my web browser”? Can you imagine the number of work hours and productivity that are being lost in the webdesign industry because of dealing with designing for Internet Explorer? (More head-crushing action in this Flickr pool.)
At least some of the bugs are supposedly supposed to be fixed in IE 7.
But yeah, I waste tons of hours on sites trying to get it working in IE. I design for Firefox first, then fix for IE.
said ysbl
at 10:22am on Thursday
The IE 7 beta is terrible. When they release it (you know, in 2007… or 2008) we’ll see if it’s any more compliant.
For the most part, I’ve learned to program around IE’s failings, but sometimes (like yesterday) it can”t be avoided and I have to start using hacks and that just makes me mad.
said Joshua
Just you wait ’til IE’s 60 days are up and any plugins (Flash, Quicktime, etc.) will require an extra click. Hopefully IE’s market share will take a major hit.
I also like how IE7 apparently ignores all the old IE hacks and instead has an [if IE] statement … i.e. a hack built in. “Don’t use your old hacks. Use OUR hacks!”
Gaah.
said cameron
at 11:49am on Thursday
It’s amazing how the word “c l i c k” sort of blends together to make my previous comment much funnier than was intended.
said cameron
at 11:49am on Thursday
Here’s a great way to get by without using hacks: No more CSS hacks
Unfortunately, the way they have it set up your css won’t get cached (since it’s a php file), but if you use the detection in your header to select a stylesheet, everybody’s happy.
said Elliot Swan
at 12:16pm on Thursday
I don’t know if I’d define that as “a great way” because it still involves extra code. And the bottom line is, no designer should HAVE to do any of that. IE should be at least slightly standards compliant. It’s not that hard. (Just ask the developers of Safari, Firefox, Opera, etc.)
said Joshua
that “no more css hacks” link looks like a headache. i’ll stick to my * html.
said ysbl
at 1:10pm on Thursday