Browsers
Redirect IE6
Man, having a kid keeps one busy. It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged, but something has been ruminating in my brain recently that I thought I would try out on ye ol’ intarwebs. What got me thinking was this post by Dan Cedarholm.
Serving an unstyled version of a site is all well and good, except it doesn’t let the IE6 user know how to remedy the problem.
Time To Drop IE6
Feeling inspired by Dan Rubin’s recent post, entitled The Final Word on IE6, I just finished writing this email to coworkers, reiterating why I think it’s time to drop support for Internet Explorer 6. Realistically, we have already stopped doing anything with IE6 in mind, we’re just talking through making it our “official” stance not to support it.
Don't Assume
So, I’ve got my Windows laptop, and I’m cranking out design after design, using my time-proven CSS methods. Then I show one of the designs to Veloso and he says something to the effect of, “Hello, padding!” I wonder to myself, “Man, what’s his problem? It has the equivalent of 30 pixels of height.” Well, the client site isn’t live yet (thankfully), so I’ll give you an example that will look familiar.
Opera, Round 2
Re-visiting the Opera
It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong.
~ Colloquial Expression
While I’m not a big man, standing only 5’10” above the earth, I have lived long enough to know that it never hurts to be flexible in admitting when you’ve jumped to conclusions too quickly. As promised, I will now attempt to give a more unbiased browser review, as I write this article in Opera 8.5.
This past weekend, I forced myself to use Opera exclusively to browse the internet.
Firefox 1.5 vs Opera 8.5
Round One, Fight!
In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, Opera recently announced that as of version 8.5, they will no longer be charging for usage of their browser. In the past, previous versions were free for download. However, unless you paid for it, you were greeted by a built-in banner advertisement during the entirety of your web browsing. I had given it a try a few years ago, but simply had not found anything useful enough to merit either paying for it, or tolerating the ads.
IE6 Multi-Class Bug
When developing a site for a ministry recently, I noticed a rendering problem with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows (big surprise). After talking it over with Chris from ParticleTree, we both concluded that (to our knowledge) this had not yet been documented. So, the purpose of this article will be to explain what I am calling the IE6 Multi-Class Bug, for lack of a better term.
Firefox Commercials
For some reason, this just struck me as being of particular interest. The extent to which Firefox has spread is pretty amazing, considering that there’s really not anyone directly profiting off of its success. This link was recently passed on to me by Jeana, so I thought I’d pass it along as well. It shows reactions by various people to the amazing difference of Firefox (assumingly over IE). Anyway, enough from me, go check it out…
Firefox Insecure?
Update: As of May 12th, the problem has been fixed.
I don’t mean that Firefox has insecurity issues in the sense that it needs constant pats on the back and reassurance of its self-worth. I mean that our oh-so-reliable alternative to Internet Explorer might actually have a JavaScript vulnerability which would allow for malicious code to be distributed through web pages.