I love Internet Explorer. I equally love sticking red-hot pokers in my eyes and sliding bamboo splinters underneath my finger nails.
Perhaps you missed the announcement about the IE9 ‘platform preview’, if that’s the case, then jump over to the IE Blog and have a read about what they’re doing to bring things up to where everyone else was three years ago.
All IE users are either not fans of the internet or work for some mindless corporation which insists on installing IE6 on their work machines because they have some antiquated internal application that requires IE6 to function. That is a very sweeping generalisation, and I don’t really care, I can say this because IE users won’t see this paragraph unless they actually highlight the text in their inferior browsers. I was going to hide this whole article, but that seemed like too much effort for a quick thrill. (spoiler alert: I’ve used rgba for the text colour.)
This is also my 500th post on this blog, so it’s only fitting that its a rant. Let’s go.
My eyes, it burns, it burns…
Acid will do that. But with a diluted 55/100 score thus far in the Acid3 test it is more likely to fizz and tingle than actually burn. Safari 4 gets perfect 100/100, and Firefox 3.6 94/100. Long way to go guys, maybe start boasting once you hits the 90’s… not the 50’s.
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