I'll test it in IE7 when I get time, if you like. Though the rendering is a little screwy in Beta 2 Preview, apparently the actual Beta 2 has a pretty good engine that follows the standards quite closely.
The sweat pours down my forehead as I crouch behind the battered automobile. My ears are ringing because the sound is deafening as they unload in my direction. The car shudders amidst flashes of light, and pieces of metal rain down upon me. These guys really, really hate me. But that's okay. Thanks to some inventive internet research, I've got the Big F#@%ing Gun with me and am ready to unleash. I wait for them to reload, and then it's my turn. I blow away everything in sight, my MSAW ripping through wood, glass, metal, and flesh. I know this is so wrong, but I just can't wipe the smile from my face. The Microsoft Internet Explorer developer group deserved to die. All of them. Rest in pieces you bastards.
And this is why I think playing violent video games is actually a good thing. If I couldn't fire up my Xbox and pretend to blow away the idiots who made Internet Explorer the shitty-ass browser that it is... I would probably be tempted to do it in real-life. But instead, I just sit down with the video game Black and blow shit up for an hour, then the urge to kill is manageable again.
And it's all because of this...
BloggerPeeps beta, which is starting to look fabulous in every browser I throw at it (including Safari, FireFox, Opera)... is, of course, looking like crap in Internet Explorer. AS USUAL!! So then I've got to sit down and try to figure out which magical combination of "display:block" and "display:inline" statements will bypass all of the IE bugs and display the page as it's meant to be seen. I must be getting used to it, because it only took about an hour this time.
Anyway, everything is coming together for my very own elite blogging "anti-network". Tonight I'll swap out the temporary graphics with the real thing, then get the database hooked up. After that, I'll be good to go, and start adding sites later this week. Woot!
Now I need to go buy groceries. It's 10:00am, and all I had to eat for breakfast is a can of Mountain Dew.
I feel funny.
Looking good!
IE is a pain. If you make it looks great in IE it goofs up in a good chunk of the rest of the browsers or if you work in all the browsers it always has some bug in IE.
The problem is IE 6 is 65-70% of my viewers (Safari/Firefox is the next 20-25%)....
Posted by Gary LaPointe on March 05, 2006 | Reply
IE blows huge twinkies. Can't believe I stuck with it for so long. A bit like staying with a boyfriend you don't really like anymore, and you know you could do better, but that means effort. Then when you finally kick the bastard to the curb, you wonder what took you so long... or maybe that's just my life?
I installed Firefox on my parent’s computer a few months ago, added a desktop shortcut, made it the default web browser, gave them a 30 min. lesson on how to use it and all the benefits of it over IE. I even went so far as to remove every shortcut to IE I could find, including from the Programs folder.
Yet every time I go home and have to use their computer, it's the most recently used program. God only knows how they continue to find it, but somehow they do. It's either magic or a Microsoft conspiracy for world domination.
Agree to use Firefox or Opera, with this browser some blogs or webpage show great display, but sometimes it show so messy with IE.
If the blog owner recheck the messy page with IE, maybe he/she can show fix for that, but unfortunetly not every owner recheck thier web with some kind of browser.
I am ALL atwitter. Seriously. Can't WAIT. I swear to only use Firefox until that time when I can get a Mac and it will be all Safari, all the time. Promise.
We could just do what the IE-based web designers have been doing forever, and that is to just put a big ol' disclaimer on the page that says, "This site viewed best in Firefox/Safari. This page does not display correctly in Internet Explorer."
I just don't understand why more people don't switch to Firefox or whatever. IE is bloated and buggy and just plain rubbish. Blech.
Posted by michaelsean on March 06, 2006 | Reply
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