Demise of IE6
18. The only thing that would make you happier than the demise of IE6 is world peace.
No need for more words.
Archive for Cool Quotes
Standards & Martians
Following in the same line as our post: The Microsoft Way Of Thinking we found this article about Martians Headsets that elaborates on why it is important to follow standards.
The article is lengthy and a little weird, it uses Martian lingo like: Qxyzrhjjjjukltk, but it is worth a read to understand more the damage that IE has done by not following standards.
Said in simple words
“Here we go again. Fixing the web for Microsoft. Isn’t Microsoft supposed to be fixing IE for the web?”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thanks Rob.
ie8 will still break sites
i was at the ieblog site today and was surprise to findout that ie8 even with it’s super standard mode will still break sites????WTF
i am sad to say that i am not the only one mad at the fact that ie8 will still not work to standers but that there is going to now be another version out there to code for i had hope that they would just let it die at 7 and just start shipping firefox with there os.
i will say no more take a look at the ieblog and the Quotes here is my quote and my top two.
Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:20 AM by kimane
i have just about had it with Microsoft i have been a web developer for over 8 years and at the point of just doing something else!!! coding now for 3 versions of ie is making everyone nuts do you all not read what people are saying, i think not cause now your going to put another one out there come on would you all over there just please resign and have them ship the os with firefox For The Love Of God please BILL just let them all go.
crying web developer
Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:06 PM by Oliver
And of course you’re going to allow me to run the beta standalone aren’t you. I mean anything else would be crazy wouldn’t it, given the number of changes you’re making to turn your product into something that has suddenly started to adhere to standards…
Oh wait… you aren’t? I’m going to have no way of testing compatibility between versions 5 through 8 of what has been the buggiest, most consistently inconsistent browser of all time?
“Run them in virtual machines”. No. I’m not going to have 4 different installations of Windows on my machine. I can’t be bothered any more. I’m just going to develop in Flash, Flex and AIR (Silverlight can take a running jump given how I feel about how I’ve been treated as a developer by Microsoft over the last 7 incredibly painful years) and if I do write HTML I’m going to make it standards compliant and include a “gold bar” at the top of the window telling IE users to download Firefox.
Including proprietary headers like X-UA-compatible is not something I’ll be doing just to save Microsoft’s blushes. As much as the current team is to be commended for their efforts, their employers did nothing for *years*. Developers were required to work hundreds of hours for no recompense to get it to work properly and I, for one, have had enough.
Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:09 PM by Gyrobo
You’ve just ADMITTED that even WITH super standards mode as an opt-in, IE8 will STILL cause site breakage.
The question remains: are you incompetent, or do you just hate developers?
Breaking the code to fix it on IE
This was a nice article I picked up. It reminded me of those days in which we had to break our code, add scripts, hacks, etc in order to make our websites work on IE. thanks god those days are gone. No wait, IE still sucks and we still have to break our code, add scripts, hacks, etc to make our websites work on IE.
My favorite quote: “Their browser has such a large market share that people are forced to make pages work in it. Other browsers don’t make these mistakes, but people blame them anyway. They end up recommending IE, and IE’s dominance gets enforced, and with it, the Windows Operating system that it runs on.” Be sure to read on the conspiracy theorist.
Thank You Microsoft
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
Millennium Falcon
Courtesy of: http://io9.com/353543/seven-habits-of-highly-effective-spaceship-captains
Just because you have a crappy ship doesn’t mean you’re a loser. Everyone knows that Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars, is piloting a souped-up bucket. And yet his seemingly-crappy ship is probably the very best thing for helping out a group of covert resistance fighters like Obi Wan and Luke. Plus, he knows his ship so well that he can totally slam those Stormtroopers in their McFighters. Lesson learned? Every crappy PC is a lean, mean Linux box waiting to be born. Oh, and in case that didn’t make sense: It’s not the tools; it’s what you do with them.
In other words:
- http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu
- Backup your files
- Install Ubuntu
- Start using firefox and forget about IE and Windows all in four simple steps.
