The Perfect Title
Internet Explorer – How I Loath Thee!
How can you get a better title than that? Now I’d also like to take this opportunity to answer the author’s question “What other Internet Explorer oddities can you add to the list?”
What has annoyed me most about IE has been the changes from IE6 to IE7. I was thrilled when I found out that IE 7 was going to be more CSS compliant than IE6. Then reality set in. Sure it has less non-compliance issues than IE6, but they’re not the same ones!. I’d assumed (you know what happens when you do that) that pages that worked in IE6 would continue to work in IE7. Wrong! Several of my major sites had to be modified so that they would work in IE7. Microsoft fixed IE7′s CSS compliance issues just enough that the hacks that worked in IE6 didn’t work in IE7, but not so much that they actually worked. Now instead of designing for IE6 and good browsers like Firefox and Opera, I have to design for IE6, IE7, and good browsers like Firefox and Opera.
Author wanders off, muttering under his breathe… @#$% Microsoft.
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Pingback by University Update - Firefox - The Perfect Title — August 9, 2007 @ 1:51 pm
Internet Explorer has to be the worst thing Microsoft has ever done to people and the majority of people have no clue. Such a shame. For those wanting a better web experience download Firefox.
Comment by LGR — August 9, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
It’s amazing how bad it actually is. I’ve never understood why Microsoft pushes it so much… they don’t sell it.
Comment by HDW — August 9, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
Oh come on HDW! You know you are always up for a good challenge!! HA HA HA HA!!!!!
I have to agree IE6 was really nothing to write home about but IE7 has really got to be the pits! I’ve often thought of uninstalling it and downloading IE6 again, (lesser of the 2 evils), but I decided in the end just to suffer through, considering I don’t use it that often and I need to see what my sites look like on it when I get done, (usually pretty bad)!
I noticed your new little “are you trying to spam this site?” sign…helping?
Comment by Sage's Unicorn! — August 10, 2007 @ 7:40 am
AS long as people say no, the spam question works. It’s cut off spam comments hitting Spam Karma almost entirely, thats about 30% of the spam I was getting. Trackback spam is still hitting, but it doesn’t seem to bog anything down quite as much.
IE7 is actually better than IE6 in my opinion, it’s just that it isn’t a straight improvement. Some things got better, others got worse. They didn’t fix some things they should have, they just made them err differently.
Comment by HDW — August 10, 2007 @ 8:11 am