But unfortunately, IE is free. You can't charge Ms for providing you with free broken browser.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:07 PM, matt_thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "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 > > > -- Visit my website: http://onlinesid.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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
