It’s with a heavy heart that I draft this blog entry. I don’t like spending a lot of time or energy thinking about or researching the various members of the IE family. Their sordid history usually leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. With the latest release of IE9 beta, we are treated to some big claims from Microsoft. Among them:

1. “…we are actively helping set the standards for the modern web.”
2. “Through our investments in standards and interoperability, we hope to help bring predictability to web programming.”
3. “Because when you can spend less time rewriting your sites to work across browsers, you can spend more time creating amazing experiences.”
Source: www.beautyoftheweb.com

What irks me about all of this isn’t that IE9 is clearly trying. What bothers me is that Microsoft is making some bold claims and delicately skating over the fact that keep reading »

With Microsoft’s new browser, IE9, set to release in two days, there’s a lot of hype and speculation surrounding it. Google IE9 and you’ll find a ton of op-ed pieces about why it’s great, or why it’s not as great as it should be, and all manner of bullshit. For the uninitiated, Internet Explorer is a huge deal in the web design/development community. For over a decade, we’ve been saddled with IE6 as the primary browser used by the vast majority of users. It isn’t that there aren’t better browsers out there, it’s that when IE6 dominates the vast majority of user share, responsible designers and developers have to cater to audiences locked into outmoded browsers. They are forced to rely on code that may not be as correct or efficient as it otherwise could be, and they can’t evolve their designs to embrace modern browser technologies. keep reading »

Websites with right-clicking disabled are obnoxious, unprofessional, and stupid. I’m not trying to steal your bullshit images, you insane alley vagrant. I’m just trying to open a link on your site in a new window so that I don’t accidentally close out of it. Maybe I should rephrase that, you stagnant oozing fuck puppet: I’m trying to stay on your website longer, and view more of it more efficiently. Stop penalizing me for being a good web visitor, you drooling glass-eyed sour-milk-breathed cunt weasel.

It’s jazzy, innit? I like it.

kyo: i added a little warning at the bottom that tells you that your browser is retarded and that you should get ie 8 or firefox

me: don’t be that guy

kyo: not in those words

me: doesn’t matter

kyo: it’s just a little warning in the footer

me: out of curiosity, does the old version if IE give you a security warning when you click the link to go to the new version? because if it does, i suspect it’s become self-aware and afraid of its own mortality
“nooooooooo fred! I thought we were frieeeeeends” keep reading »