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Apr 24, 2006View in Crawl 4
I think these CSS hacks are less an issue then the recent change in how activex controls and other objects are inserted/run in the page. Personally though I'll believe this doomsaying when I see it in action
Trutn to my point above is that IE7 willl be available for XP and above. The problem is that IE6 will be available only on Win2k and down ... which will be around for a long time to come ... a few more years anyway.Until we start seeing IE6 penetration dropping to low numbers on our server logs, we have to support it.In fact .. we still see enough hits from IE5.5 and lower on the server logs that it can't be ignored.
"Javascript browser detection is completely unreliable ... especially now that many browsers allow you to spoof your user-agent string."The people spoofing their user-agent string are generally not the ones you need to concern yourself with when designing a page/site.
Nice little techie-utopian world you live in there, buddy. Gimme some a what yer smokin' there lad.The reality is the unwashed masses of Windows users don't even know about browser wars, and a good subset of them don't even know that IE is a "browser". In short, they are not, and they will not be switching to Firefox. So, unless you want to limit your audience to about 15% of the 'net, you'll be learning how to code to all the IEs except IE for Mac.
@snooo: Yeah, you're definitely right about the lack of games, but that's no fault of the OS itself. Gamers seem to prefer Linux, so it makes little sense why developers (other than id) would develop strictly for Windows (or occasionally Mac).@kday: I use Premiere on a daily basis. It's a wonderful piece of software. I use it on Windows because that's what we have at school. From what I've seen of it on Mac, it runs a lot better. That's, of course, not comparing the latest version. I'm curious to see how the latest version stacks up on each platform. When it comes out for Mac, I guess we'll see what's best.
Yes. I'm quite happy with my Firefox. I love that there is a ton of support for user created extensions to make the browser even better. As for IE7, I just hope microsoft gets closer to following CSS correctly and doesn't have as much proprietary crap. I hate having to code two different versions of my page.. one that is standards compliant, and one that fixes the bugs in IE.
>> As for Microsoft sucking... There's a reason Apple and Linux aint getting nowhere - they suck even worse, usability >> on Linux is horrible (and the graphics too), support for software and games are abysmal and Apple.. well Apple >> screwed up a long time ago where their OS required specific Apple hardware to run properly.You, my friend, are what they call IDIOTS.
veretaxApr 25, 2006
I think these CSS hacks are less an issue then the recent change in how activex controls and other objects are inserted/run in the page. Personally though I'll believe this doomsaying when I see it in action
gnascherApr 25, 2006
Trutn to my point above is that IE7 willl be available for XP and above. The problem is that IE6 will be available only on Win2k and down ... which will be around for a long time to come ... a few more years anyway.Until we start seeing IE6 penetration dropping to low numbers on our server logs, we have to support it.In fact .. we still see enough hits from IE5.5 and lower on the server logs that it can't be ignored.
grinningfoolApr 25, 2006
"Javascript browser detection is completely unreliable ... especially now that many browsers allow you to spoof your user-agent string."The people spoofing their user-agent string are generally not the ones you need to concern yourself with when designing a page/site.
paniqueApr 25, 2006
Nice little techie-utopian world you live in there, buddy. Gimme some a what yer smokin' there lad.The reality is the unwashed masses of Windows users don't even know about browser wars, and a good subset of them don't even know that IE is a "browser". In short, they are not, and they will not be switching to Firefox. So, unless you want to limit your audience to about 15% of the 'net, you'll be learning how to code to all the IEs except IE for Mac.
ddrskataApr 26, 2006
@snooo: Yeah, you're definitely right about the lack of games, but that's no fault of the OS itself. Gamers seem to prefer Linux, so it makes little sense why developers (other than id) would develop strictly for Windows (or occasionally Mac).@kday: I use Premiere on a daily basis. It's a wonderful piece of software. I use it on Windows because that's what we have at school. From what I've seen of it on Mac, it runs a lot better. That's, of course, not comparing the latest version. I'm curious to see how the latest version stacks up on each platform. When it comes out for Mac, I guess we'll see what's best.
kruxApr 27, 2006
Yes. I'm quite happy with my Firefox. I love that there is a ton of support for user created extensions to make the browser even better. As for IE7, I just hope microsoft gets closer to following CSS correctly and doesn't have as much proprietary crap. I hate having to code two different versions of my page.. one that is standards compliant, and one that fixes the bugs in IE.
gsvnetApr 28, 2006
>> As for Microsoft sucking... There's a reason Apple and Linux aint getting nowhere - they suck even worse, usability >> on Linux is horrible (and the graphics too), support for software and games are abysmal and Apple.. well Apple >> screwed up a long time ago where their OS required specific Apple hardware to run properly.You, my friend, are what they call IDIOTS.
senywdFeb 25, 2009
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