For quite some time, my colleagues and I have been (semi) joking about invoicing Microsoft, and the oblivious organisations who persist in requiring the use of Microsoft browsers, for time spent having to break beautiful W3C Standards compliant sites to make them work in IE6/7... hopefully this won't be required for IE8, but I'm not holding my breath... (One big black mark against IE8 already is the fact that it won't support SVG (Scalar Vector Graphics) standard, even though most browsers, e.g. Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, and (I think) Opera support most of the spec already - a tragic missed opportunity for a common, open graphics functionality on the web... but of course it conflicts with "Silverlight", another MS-only technology and a classic example of trying leverage the monopoly for fun and profit, and to make up for costly debacles like Vista and Zune...)
Has anyone else been specifically tracking his/her IE6/7-specific CSS workaround time? It seems very unfair to require our customers to pay for Microsoft's inexcusably broken browsers. I suspect we could get quite a bit of publicity for such a symbolic event. To those list-lurkers on Microsoft's payroll - what do you think? Worth a lash? Cheers, Dave matt_thomson wrote: > I used to use multiple IE's for 6/7, until I launched a site that I > had only tested in the multiple IE-IE6. It turned out the site was > fine in multiple IE, and broken in the real IE6, and I only found out > after customer complaints. > > So then I used two hard drive partitions, with two XP's, which was a > hassle as I had to reboot a lot. > > Now I have a laptop with IE6, and my PC with IE7, works great. > > With IE8 soon to release, it seems my only choice is to have 2 laptops > and a pc (desk is getting pretty crowded), or two have two partitions > on my laptop, and reboot a lot. > > Has anyone found a better way? > > > > > -- Dave Lane = Egressive Ltd = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = m: +64 21 229 8147 p: +64 3 9633733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
