Posted by johnnie
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:18:00 GMT
I’ve been complaining for a long time about Internet Explorer. Version 6 currently makes my life a living hell, and version 7 isn’t set to do much about that. Paul Thurrott agrees with me. In fact, he goes further, describing IE as a cancer on the Web that must be stopped, and claiming that the amount of time it’s taken Microsoft to finally start work on IE7 has set back Web development by an immeasurable amount of time.
(Mind you, version 6 has it’s own problems)
Thurrott recommends a complete boycott of Internet Explorer. So do I. Please, please, please … get a better browser.
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Posted by johnnie
Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:23:54 GMT
I’m writing this post from my mum’s computer. I’m back in Yorkshire over the weekend, for a friend’s 21st birthday party, and I’m taking the opportunity to get some work hours in whilst Laura’s in Leeds (buying a present for the afore-mentioned party – we’re really not too organised about these things). Actually, I kind of feel like I’ve broken in to the house. Both parents are away for the weekend (it’s their wedding anniversay), so I’ve let myself in. The cats don’t know what’s going on – they haven’t seen me for months.
So, like I said, using my mum’s PC. It’s a fairly standard PC World-a-like, with winxp home installed. As you might expect, the pre-installed software is still in place. She browses the net with an unpatched copy of IE6 and uses Outlook Express for her email (automatically configured by her ISP). The thing is, some of my favourite websites look totally different on this machine.
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Posted by johnnie
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:04:46 GMT
Have you noticed the downright weird behaviour on the links (comment and categories) at the bottom of each post? On first loading the page, they display in some weird illegible grey colour. Hover over them and they darken. Here’s the strange bit, though – once you’ve hovered once, they stay dark. This only happens in non-IE browsers, and only affects <a> tags within an <h2> block.
Answers on a postcard please. I’m stumped on this one.
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