openaddict.com — The popular open source advocacy website Open Addict, is now blocking Internet Explorer users from viewing the newly designed front page due to IE rendering bugs: "I'm tired of hacking workarounds for IE's bad implementations of standard technologies; Try to validate Internet Explorer's home page and see if you think Microsoft cares about standards
Jul 18, 2007 View in Crawl 4
micherikJul 19, 2007
Blocking 70% of Internet users from an Open Source site is only blocking 5% of the site's potential visitors.Blocking 70% of Internet users from Digg would make the Internet a better place. This would really set an example on the web!Reeally nice idea!
hardwiredJul 19, 2007
yes, BUT I would still use Firefox as a starting point, because it follows standard and it make sense. Then I would go back and test/fix/workaround IE bugs. Yes your job is to MAKE Sure it works on IE, but AS WELL AS Firefox, as it is a signifiant 2nd browser. What he did I probably won't do, but I applaud his courage to stick to his principle and let the World out there knows the truth, and I hope this starts a trend, until MS smarten up. If the browser market gets shifted to 7-80% Firefox, then I would stop testing on IE.
Closed AccountJul 19, 2007
I found a page that validates perfectly! <a class="user" href="http://www.w3.org">http://www.w3.org</a>Who knew? =PSeriously though, the best idea I saw on here was to send to a splash page saying errors might abound if you use IE. That or just do nothing. If they use IE they either know better but are at work and can't switch, or they don't know any better and won't notice the difference anyway.
sirmasterboyJul 19, 2007
I dont know what he is complaining about, but the site works prefectly fine in ie7 if you change your useragent or open the html file and remove the code...
dotnetskyJul 19, 2007
Yeah, Ban IE. Thanks for the update so I don't need to bother visiting that site. What a bunch of schmucks.
saftaplanJul 19, 2007
Well there have been hundreds of sites who have been blocking any browser but IE for many years, thanks to Fx these sites nearly don't exist anymore. So this is some kind of revenge. And revenge is sweet.
caseyucfJul 22, 2007
actually... MANY! caseyjenks.com biatch. IE does suck but I'm not going to go so ar as to ban people using it from my site.
fordiAug 1, 2007
You need to go freelance, brah. You have no idea how many extra hours you can clock because of IE's shenanigans.
fordiAug 6, 2007
Real web designers do no such thing. We write to standard, then hack to IE.In fact, I would guess that most web designers use firefox nowadays; besides the default error console, an extension called 'firebug' is an invaluable tool in fast debugging.I know that I loathe fixing things for IE - the issues that crop up in debugging are almost impenetrable.
fordiAug 6, 2007
I figure that W3C support should be the primary goal of any project. If the client wants to pay for IE support, that's fine.Generally, I state up front that my pages are w3c standard, and charge a higher rate if they want Internet Explorer compatibility in their backend systems. Actually, I charge twice as much, explaining that it's twice as much work to get a comlpex system working on Internet Explorer after it already works in W3C compliant browsers.