I was thinking today, that maybe Microsoft would listen to me if I wrote a letter. So I tried it:
How can I put this nicely? I hate you, politely. Every formatting change that works in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 somehow changes in IE. Grow up, stop ignoring every style you see that includes the words "margin" and "padding." Stop forcing me to turn to Position Is Everything and looking up how to avoid your bugging out of my code. And most of all, load faster. Don't make me refresh every time that you screw up an element slightly and fix it the next time around. If I could maintain more than one stylesheet, and have one attached only to you, it would be on fire.
Very sincerely,
A fan.
Not sure if it worked, because after about an hour or two of tweaking what I thought was the perfect version of my site, I could see everything until my picture on "fear." Scrolling down a decent bit, I saw that the entries were apparently too wide for IE, but just the right size for Mozilla. So I took it down a notch — a notch being 20 pixels. Then, things started to look decent again, for the moment. Then, it occurred again on the comments page.
IE, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. Just trying to make my site look decent in you means going back to my CSS and searching. It doesn't help that Movable Type's CSS has some very messy organization. Once you find most of the major things, you're okay. But does each module really need its own styling? There's absolutely nothing different about them. It's text on a background. Oh my!
And for the moment, my "Subscribe to my feed" link is gone, until I care. Or until IE stops being a total tard. Sometimes, I really can't wait for the next IE to come out of Beta and do something that's actually good. But then I realize, I'll still be dealing with IE, and at that rate, plucking out all my hair over it for the next thirty millenia.
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Echo said:
Mm, there are a few problems I have with IE but in general once I started getting really serious about things I found that I had just as many problems in FF as in IE. There are still times when it’ll take me two hours to figure out one stupid little problem FF has that IE doesn’t even while all of my CSS validates. I’ve just noticed that for some reason I never bother blogging about it when I can’t figure out a problem in FF. We’ve been programmed darty eyes
Posted on June 2, 2006 6:55 PM; Permalink
Biscuitrat said:
You’d think it’d be easier in Firefox, but yeah, you’re right. With as many bugs as IE has, the few you find in Firefox you actually have to go back and look up. But it’s a faster, more…searchable(?), and personally more rewarding to find an error in Firefox. You can be all like “HEY, LOOK WHAT I HAVE!” Then all the developers give you candy, and you’re the best person on earth.
Posted on June 2, 2006 9:00 PM; Permalink