Hell has a special place for Internet Explorer.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008 · 23:29 · 0 comments

I've spent the past few days coding what I hope will become the default theme for Pez. If not, it can always be downloaded later. As a web developer, I remember the, "easy," days (right after Netscape failed) when you only had to design/code for one browser. Then the Firefox builds started gaining traction, and it was common to have two browsers opened. It was also common to have one browser render the HTML differently than the other.

Fast forward to now, where it's pretty common to have four browser windows open, and they all have their own interpretation of the code. Today I had Firefox 3 Beta 4, Flock 1.1, Internet Explorer 7 (can't install IE8 Beta 1 because I'm running Vista SP1 Beta), and Safari 3 going. In the beginning of the, "HTML format fixes," FF3b4 and Safari rendered the page the same way, Flock had it's own version, and IE 7 was way off. The stuff I was doing was probably too advanced for it.

After some tweaking, the Firefox based browsers were in sync, Safari placed the profile picture a little too high, and IE thought the profile photo should be at the bottom of the page, and the header should ignore all margins and padding.

Well, after 10 more minutes of tweaking, the profile page looks the same in every browser except for IE7, where the header is the only thing still jacked because it's anti-margin/padding!

Do you have to be an Atheist about it? My God, man!

Stuff like this makes me want to put on a superhero suit, and install Firefox on people's computer while they sleep.

Or maybe I should just help push for better web standards?

Dropping support for IE all together sounds like my cup of tea, but you can't out the market leader. Doing so makes you look like a pretentious a-hole. People don't like that.

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