Are you paying someone to make web pages?
By now I’m sure that everyone is sick of hearing web people wail and moan about how much they hate IE. But the sad truth is that aside from giving your security guy nightmares, and serving as the source of a lot of snide remarks from your latte-drinking, ironic-t-shirt-wearing web developers, IE is costing you a lot of money.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Details Begin to Leak: It stuns me that of all the things Microsoft is thinking about putting into IE7, improved CSS support is not one of them. Partner sources say Microsoft is wavering on the extent to which it plans to support CSS2 with IE 7.0. Developers…
I support an older AppleShare IP Server (ASIP) that has been in service for us for years. It does everything we need it to do, is reasonably fast, and is easy as pie to maintain. So if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Right? This particular ASIP machine primarily serves Mac…
I was in the middle of writing my love letter to IE when a SharpReader update popped up. IE7 is on the way. Joy. Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced plans to launch a test version of Internet Explorer 7.0 this summer. The company had said that it would…
About Conditional Comments: A handy but pretty obscure feature of Internet Explorer. A special comment format lets only IE see certain HTML / CSS code. So make that Web page look good in Mozilla and Opera, then hide the code necessary for IE in these comments. Conditional comments have…
This seems to be the case with everything that Microsoft makes. They tried to add their own stuff to Java and so any time something doesn't work in another browser or other choose-your-standard people think that it's the other product that's broken. Tyranny of the majority.
You just decribed my usual day at work! I too spend way too much time working on IE fixes and by "too much time" I mean, more than none and less than an enternity.
The one thing I do need is more ironic t-shirts, and acquire a love for coffee. I'm only 23 and I had a coke and put on a sweater this morning.
"...and it looks great in almost every browser..."
Except for the 90% that happen to be IE.
While I agree in theory with all the above, I've always found it easier to design for IE, and then find work arounds for the other browsers. Not technically correct, maybe, but at least you get a product out that can be viewed in the vast majority of browsers (by number, not type).
But then, maybe the sites I created were just plain crap...
