Archive for February, 2008
February 12, 2008 at 10:30 pm · Filed under Frustrations, Other Microsoft Nightmares, Plain Evil
Plain and simple, Windows Vista sucks !! To bad, i had to buy my new dell computer with it (no other choice, if i want that model in particular). If it wasn’t ’cause a lot of the programs that i use on a daily basis only runs on Windows (and Mac, but can’t afford one), i would have already switch to Ubuntu. Anyway, my frustration keeps growing as i see and operating system, that doesn’t even recognize when a problem was caused by itself, or it does, but referencing to the error as if some other program made it.
Without any more frustrating words, here i show you the evidence:
February 12, 2008 at 4:15 pm · Filed under Plain Evil
The new IE8 or IEVIII looks curiosly funny to the phrase I Evil. Is Bill Gates & company trying to tell us something? We’ll have to wait and see.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/05/internet-explorer-8.aspx#comments
* Update
Actually it is IE7, IEVII the one that most closley resembles the phrase I Evil. Could it be that 8 is just going to be more of a problem than a solution? this blog even talks about a new META tag that we now have to include to take advantage of IE8 full support? Just imagine having to develop not to one, or two but three versions of IE. Do we get to keep our copy of IE7 this time?
February 12, 2008 at 3:24 pm · Filed under Firefox Image of the Week
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Disclaimer: downloading firefox will not get you laid or win you a fast car….
February 12, 2008 at 2:28 pm · Filed under Frustrations
Here’s how the page is looking on firefox, mozilla and safari
now here’s how it’s looking on ie 7
and ie6
Yep let the screaming and debugging begin
The problem was I used the hack…
min-height:1px;
height:auto !important;
height:1px;
…so that the div would auto stretch in all browsers. This was new to me and I did not know that if I put an image in the div it would not just auto stretch like it would with text but instead it would put a space after the image. To fix this I had to set the height and min-height to the same height as the image. Of course I got to this conclusion after 30 minutes of messing with the margin and padding.
What can I say. Thank you ie.
February 12, 2008 at 8:10 am · Filed under General, Stick It To IE
And sue Microsoft for damages because of all the time, money & sanity it has made us waste trying to get our websites to work on it’s stupid browser which, as it comes standard on any PC, is the most used browser in the world.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071213-opera-tries-to-force-ie-into-w3c-compliance-with-eu-complaint-firefoxs-success-may-work-against-it.html
* Update:
Here’s microsoft response to Opera’s antitrust:
” Microsoft has officially responded to the antitrust complaint filed by Opera yesterday with the European Commission. The software giant’s key point: there are plenty of readily-available choices for Windows users looking for a browser other than Internet Explorer, and there’s nothing forcing anyone to surf with a browser he or she doesn’t like.”
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071216-microsoft-plethora-of-browsers-no-basis-for-opera-gripes.html?rel
While the above statement is true and users can actually use another browser, like I do, the common user doesn’t have any idea on how to do this. Let’s face it, most users think IE is the Internet and when you try to explain the concept of browsers to them they stare at you with a “what the hell are you talking about” face. And elaborating on this, it is a nice thing that Microsoft includes a browser so people can browse the web without having to get a CD (since you wouldn’t be able to download a browser). Mac does the same thing but the key difference is that Safari is a complaint browser while IE is not.
And well, since Microsoft said it: “here’s nothing forcing anyone to surf with a browser he or she doesn’t like.” we at this blog will make sure to have more instructions and reasons for people to change so that they don’t have to expereince the web in a crappy browser and we, the developers, don’t have to resort to crazy hacks to make our websites work on badly developed products.
February 11, 2008 at 8:02 am · Filed under Cool Quotes, Plain Evil
I found this on another Website but forgot the link:
“Officially support running multiple versions of IE. Web professionals need to spend way too much time to test their work in IE as it is. Ease our pain just a little by giving us an official way of running several versions of IE on the same copy of Windows. Not necessarily at the same time, but without having to reboot or reinstall. Please.”
I mean, Microsoft updates my computer whenever they want to. They even turn it off on the middle of a rendering to finalize their update yet, they don’t update everybody to IE7 but decide that no one should be allowed to run both browsers on the same computer. So here I am having to resort to two different computers, one with IE6 an one with IE7 so that I can fully test my websites on both browsers.
Thanks again Microsoft, for making my developer life yet a little easier by having to work on multiple computers
February 10, 2008 at 10:08 am · Filed under CSS Disasters, Frustrations, Plain Evil
Yes, there some other quirks to web development but as you can see, IE takes more than half of a web developers time, if you include the swearing against Bill Gates (look here for a quick solution). Shouldn’t we stand together and sue Microsoft for all the time and money it makes us waste? We should give it a thought.
February 9, 2008 at 3:53 pm · Filed under Frustrations, Plain Evil
Here’s a petition for proper PNG support on IE: http://www.petitiononline.com/msiepng/petition.html I don’t know how old it is but since Microsoft has yet to develop a browser that truly supports PNG, I thought it was a good idea to keep the petition alive.
Sure, IE7 supports PNG transparency, but try using a javascript framework to fade in or animate a PNG and you will see the beauty of IE7’s PNG support.
February 8, 2008 at 4:38 pm · Filed under Firefox Image of the Week
For the love of god please don’t make the fox cry.
February 8, 2008 at 4:26 pm · Filed under Media
..watch this video to make it go away. it has worked for us !!
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