January 19th, 2009
A web designer’s rage
If you’re a web designer, I’m sure you can relate to this.
I plotted this strip right before my brother visited me this weekend. And while working on a site with him (still this weekend), we ran in to almost this exact problem.
The computer’s still working though.
January 19th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I do this for a living now; this pretty much sums up my work week. It’s kind of fun actually, in a masochistic kind of way.
But seriously, I think IE6 is holding back the progress of the Internet. It had its day in the sun, but IE7’s been out for over two years now and IE8’s in the oven. If folks aren’t willing to switch to a better browser like Opera, Firefox, or heck, even Chrome, then they can AT LEAST take the 2 minutes it takes to upgrade to IE7.
I’m thinking about adding an IE6 conditional comment to my own site that displays a special banner: “Every time you use IE6, you make Oy sad.”
January 19th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
AMEN Danny, I agree completely, especially about IE6 holding back the progress of the Internet. Things would be so much easier if IE6 just disappeared from the face of the earth.
It funny how you wrote on Twitter “So ridiculously true, it’s almost not funny”, because I thought almost the EXACT same thing before posting; “This is barley even funny – this is just the way things are.”
January 19th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
ahaha – feel your pain there Rasmus! Great strip!
(spellcheck – on description – “while” … :D)
January 19th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
That’s the way it ALWAYS is, things seem work fine in every browser.
But then you open the site in IE and it’s all horribly, horribly wrong. Honestly, if there’s a problem with rendering the site it’s in IE and all other browsers work fine, just kill IE already.
January 19th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Thanks for the spellcheck moo!
Can’t disagree with that cyberwasteland. I wish every browser would display sites the same way.
January 19th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
“It’s funny because its true”
January 19th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Thanks Pierre
January 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
…and now I know what my face looks like when I get pissed at my hosting sites…
January 19th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Rachel: …and thanks to that comment, so does the entire internet now…
January 19th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
There is a certain degree schism in developing websites that are IE6-compatible. On the one hand your pride as a developer (and for the sake of your clients) you should make the pages work in every common browser, but on the other hand it’s that kind of thinking that makes it easy for the people to avoid upgrading.
One day, one sweet day, all commonly used browsers will be standards compliant and fallacies in the design will be attributed to the BROWSER and not the designer.
January 19th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Well said Michael. Well said.
October 11th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
… How did you get that to look exactly like me?! Holy crud, I have never seen a better portrait of me… except that I never wear red. Yes. Always green, because otherwise people don’t notice me eyes. Of course. You couldn’t possibly know me. Red? Never. Oh no. |o o|
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October 11th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Avatar didn’t work, darn it.
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October 11th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Sorry for the triple post. I said avatar, I meant “emoticon”.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I actually have hidden cameras in all of my readers houses. Why? …that’s a secret…