Archive for Plain Evil
March 7, 2008 at 2:11 pm · Filed under Frustrations, Plain Evil, ie8
After testing some websites on IE8 and realizing that some clients are going to call me pretty soon complaining about their website, I decided to give the Suckerfish Dropdowns a try since I use this technique on some of my menus with perfect results on all browsers, IE6 & IE7 included.
First, I went to the Vertical example (most of my menus are vertical so I wanted to give this one a try) and everything seemed normal. Then I decided to test the rollover since all my sites were doing crazy things on this function and this is how IE8 displays it:
Something with the z-index seems to be changed since now the text displays above the rollover, making the menu useless.
Well. at least I know all the crazy behavior I was seeing is not my fault, after all all the hacks that I’ve implemented to make the menu work inside my websites (where I have some other div, classes, scripts etc) were working fine on the previous IE versions.
February 18, 2008 at 2:10 am · Filed under Plain Evil, Stick It To IE
Here i bring you two tweak tools that will help us customize a little, that evil IE7.
One will allow us to remove the search bar from the upper right of the browser; two options either messing with the registry following the explanation on this link:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/12/remove-search-bar-from-ie-7.html
or downloading a simple application the guys from IntelliAdmin has created, on the download section of the previous link.
The second one will tweak IE7 in diferent ways, like showing or hiding different bars on the evil browser. Two ways again, messing with the registry following the instructions or installing a well created applications developed by the same guys here:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/01/tweak-your-ie-7-settings.html
This will make our life easier and i do want to thank them for this.
Don’t forget to check their download section for others tweak tools for Windows and company, here:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/Downloads.htm
PD: And if any of them are reading this post, i will like to tell them, that i share the same frustration they have using Windows Vista. I’m this close to throw my PC into my backyard lake.
February 14, 2008 at 7:43 am · Filed under Cool Quotes, Frustrations, Plain Evil
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.
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/
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 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.
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