When you get a chance, I highly recommend reading this article…
The most critical point in Wilson’s post, in my mind, is Microsoft’s admission that it will fail the crucial Acid2 browser-compliance test , which the Web Standards Project (WaSP) designed to help browser vendors ensure that their products properly support Web standards. Microsoft apparently disagrees. “Acid2 … is pointedly not a compliance check,” Wilson noted, contradicting the description on the Acid2 Web site. “As a wish list, [Acid2] is really important and useful to my team, but it isn’t even intended, in my understanding, as our priority list for IE 7.0.” Meanwhile, other browser teams have made significant efforts to comply with Acid2.
This is just annoying. Further on it is stated that making IE 7.0 100% compliant will break at least half of the e-commerce sites online now.
I say that’s not M$’s problem. That is the fault of developers that do not bother to test their work in browsers other than IE.
My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It’s a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn’t secure and isn’t standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators. Because of their user bases, however, Web developers are hamstrung into developing for IE at the expense of established standards that work well in all other browsers. You can turn the tide by demanding more from Microsoft and by using a better alternative Web browser. I recommend and use Mozilla Firefox, but Apple Safari (Macintosh only) and Opera 8 are both worth considering as well.
Amen.
Here are some screen shots for you to show just how bad this is. First, IE 6 on Windows XP click either for a full screen view.
The reference rendering:
Now, FireFox:
Yes, the kitty without claws
Captured a bird and brought it into the house.
Beat that!
Been battling sleep for the last few days weeks months. I’ve never really had full blown insomnia before, so it has been an interesting experience.
I try to sleep. But my body instead decides to toss and turn in bed, kind of half-sleeping. I usually wake up from these bouts about 45 minutes, drenched in sweat. So, I get up, turn the computer back on and spend about an hour going blind on Strong Bad emails (I really need to use stnank more often), go back to bed and fall asleep for a few hours until I again wake up with a need to drink or go to the bathroom or whatever. Then, another hour or two of sleep and hey, whaddya know? It’s morning.
Yea, like that. Not fun. No, really.
I know when I was younger “I’ll sleep when I’m dead!” was my battle cry. Don’t lie and say you have never uttered and/or typed that phrase yourself. I will call you on it. I am here to say now, definitivly, that this is completly 100% false. I would like some sleep now please. Yes, go ahead and super-size it. Sure I’ll have the apple pie too, why not. Just give me some f’ing sleep.
Someday, sleep will again be my bitch. I’m getting back to it, slowly but surely.
Meanwhile, back at the db cave…
I have been obsessed with the MINI sites podcast lately. All but 1 of you have heard it so far and have chimed in. Thanks for the feedback. It’s really a lot of fun. Besides that, it got me my own drinking game. That’s either the first step to being famous, or the last. I’ll let you know next week.
On the music front, everyone has been seeing some kick ass shows lately, and I’ve actually found a couple of albums that I don’t mind listening to all the way. The kick ass shows have been:
- Buddy Guy and Etta James (no, she’s not dead) at the Hollywood Bowl. I was told that when Etta did At Last it was awesome!
- Michael Buble (please excuse the correct punctuation…I didn’t feel like looking up the ASCII) in Dallas TX. Besides being a drool-a-rific hottie, his show was a lot of fun. I’m told he did some Maroon 5 and Michael Jackson songs too, besides his normal pop standards.
A few albums that I am totally digging either entirely or at least half of the tracks from…
- Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z. Poppy? Oh yea. A little cheesy? Nope, more like a lot of cheesy. But hey, I like his writing and his performance style.
- Enigma - Voyaguer. Not like Sadness, Part II at all. More on the ambient tip. Worth it for Boum-Boum, Voyageur and The Piano alone
- Mike Doughty - Haughty Melodic. He’s the ex-lead singer of Soul Coughing with a quirky style and gravelly voice (total voice/face mismatch). This album is fairly acoustic and very upbeat. Check out especially Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well and his cover of Kenny’s Roger’s Gambler
All worth checking out. Yes, even the Jason Mraz. Yes, I like it. So there. Go ahead, go make fun of me.
« Newer Articles
