Comments on: Why I Hate Internet Explorer, Part LXXVIII

By: Bil

Bil — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

You know, there just haven’t been enough comments around here lately, so I am going to start leaving a bunch, maybe under psuedonyms.

By: J. Caeser

J. Caeser — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Did you know that the number in your post title is “78″? Is there a significance to this?

Et tu, Bil-le?

By: Em

Em — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Whats up with the red bars? I was attracted to them. And they are confusing, because they have nothing to do with the subliminal message. Unless I’m missing something.

By: Tim Francis-Wright

Tim Francis-Wright — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Why not set “subliminal” as a CSS class then use bil to get the effect that you want?

IE will probably render it differently than Opera, but it will still come close. (If you’re as picky as me, you’ll need to do more–check out the source of kmarx.com for details.)

By: Bil

Bil — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Ah, this is why it pays to link to other bloggers with more technical know-how. Thanks for the tip, Tim, and thanks for coming by and reading!

By: Nightwing

Nightwing — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

What bothers me about this is simple. It would benefit everyone (those who develop the websites, those who develop the browsers, those who view the websites, people at the w3C) if the browsers would at least attempt to standardize how they handle some things. For example - no one is going to download IE just because it handles the tag differently (or not at all).

By: Bil

Bil — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Unfortunately, it would benefit Microsoft if their browser was the only one people developed for (I guess. I don’t really see why, but they assure me there’s some value to being the dominant browser). And since they have, like, 90% market share, they have no impetus to standardize. As far as they’re concerned, let everyone conform to the MS standards.

By: Robert Douglass

Robert Douglass — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I’m usually polite, but having wasted hours of my life trying to program things for the replaceable trash program Internet Explorer. I’ve seen others waste hours of their life (which are irreplaceable) fixing the mess that Microsoft has force fed to the masses for nearly the last decade. I’ve therefore come up with a very apt and descriptive phrase which I feel describes IE very well: replaceable trash. Feel free to quote me on this, and don’t forget to show people what we’re talking about. If you want to download some replaceable trash, you can do so here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx