http://www.stupidie.com Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:18:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en And we weren't the ones to state this. This time it was Marah Marie after seeing how IE8 played around with her blog name. We've been a little quiet latley in this blog and since we are seeing more post by other people pop up randomly around the Web, talking about ... http://www.stupidie.com/2008/08/04/ie8-beta-is-hillarious/ Today we ran into a very fun error and by fun I mean stupid on the part of IE and probably because we had some fun trying to make it work. As it turns out, IE doesn't like it when you use the lightbox script and the swfobject on the ... http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/25/fun-with-lightbox-the-swfobject/ "The best way to get rid of IE6 is to stop supporting it." some may argue this is a bad move as our responsibility as Web Developers is to support our users and create a nice user experience when navigating through our websites. I completely agree with this statement but ... http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/22/stop-support-for-ie6/ Thanks to Wacky Archives for compiling this list of the 25 worse Windows Fail. Maybe we should start relaying more on Mac or Linux to develop kiosks and displays. I don't know, just a thought. http://www.wackyarchives.com/featured/25-worst-moments-when-windows-fail.htmlShareThis http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/18/worse-windows-fail/ For those of us who decided to dump the PC but are still forced to keep one handy to test our designs, he's a great tool that will allow you to test without having to set a Virtual Machine, Boot Camp, or any other method on your mac but instead ... http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/15/test-ie-on-your-mac/ This post comes from a mix of two articles dealing with security while browsing the Web. In simple terms, if you are using IE on any version (5 - 8) then the chances of your computer getting hacked with malware, exploits, viruses etc, are far greater than someone using a ... http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/14/to-secure-or-not-secure-ie-security-vulnerabilities/ And this time we are not the ones to point it out. It is Microsoft who does the favor: http://www.thoughtmechanics.com/2008/07/12/ie8-fail-win/ShareThis http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/12/ie8-still-fails/ ShareThis http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/10/ie7-not-supported-on-vista/ Haven't tried this myself, is not very easy now that I've completely crossover Mac and  I only use IE to test Websites about once every week, but it seems that IE is a memory thief. Has anybody experienced a similar issue? We may need to keep an eye about this on ... http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/10/ie7-eats-up-ram/ I know iframes are not that great because of accessibility issues etc but they are a great solution when clients want to white label applications or information from other Websites which in case is what I had to do on this occasion and what triggered this post. To make a long ... http://www.stupidie.com/2008/07/09/ie7-hates-iframes/