"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?"
How about an international "Bill Microsoft Day" where any participating IT companies send off an invoice to their national microsoft office (and update their invoice online like a "pledge" website). Of course Microsoft would not pay, but an event like that every year in the press would be terrible publicity, and a nice cathartic protest for all the crap we put up with. Probably wishful thinking... but a nice idea. On Oct 9, 9:55 pm, Dave Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 = > nosoftwarepatentshttp://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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
