Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only 1279
An anonymous reader says "According to this story on news.com, it is becoming harder for users of Microsoft-free systems and browsers to view the web. This seems to be a new call to arms from the standards groups, and it is something we should be thinking about. Without help from web designers, using browsers like Mozilla and Opera will effectively cut off our ability to view web sites 'correctly.'" My pet peeve is when sites hype and announce new-and-improved sites, and then they come out and they are simply a gigantic
flash application.
Is this the time (Score:2, Funny)
And in other news... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Is this the time (Score:2, Funny)
$ printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n" | nc foo 80 | less
If it can't be read using that, then it ain't worth reading.
Re:Gnome or KDE? (Score:2, Funny)
JAMIE! He's talking to you! (Score:2, Funny)
Now tell this to jamie to fix the page-widening-bugs that plague slashdot. And change 5% to the real number of IE users (I'd really like to see real stats on who uses what browser to view
Irony (Score:2, Funny)
Re:AOL (Score:3, Funny)
I'm no corporation, but you've just given me 34 million good reasons to reject any non-IE browser from viewing my personal webpage.
Re:IE has the most uesrs (Score:2, Funny)
But, but, but designing that eye candy provides work for otherwise unnecessary marketing types! You expect them to have to get a real job instead? How cruel can you be?
A little irony (Score:4, Funny)
At a world-famous corporation (that shall remain nameless here), the chief technology officer mandated IE as the official company browser. Compatibility with all other browsers was to be ignored for cost reasons, for all intranet sites.
The CTO announced the mandate on an intranet web page.
The page, when rendered in IE, crashed.
Of course it displayed perfectly in Netscape.
Re:Complain to webdesigners (Score:5, Funny)
<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide the script from old browsers that don't recognize scripts
var browser_name = navigator.appName;
var browser_version = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
if (browser_name == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
document.write("<font face=\"Futura, Kudos, Helvetica, Arial\">");
document.write("<center>\n");
document.write("My condolences! ");
document.write("You appear to be running Internet Explorer.<br>\n");
document.write("I highly recommend checking out ");
document.write("<a href=\"http://www.opera.com\">Opera</a>\n");
document.write("as an alternative...\n");
document.write("</center>\n");
document.write("</font>\n");
document.write("<p>\n");
}
</script>
What about Netscape 4.x (Score:2, Funny)
Re:...yes... (Score:2, Funny)
oh wait, IE dosen't support CSS well enough to do that, nevermind..