Comments on: Make the A-grade, or fail trying http://blog.reindel.com/2007/11/06/make-the-a-grade-or-fail-trying/ d'bug shares tips, tricks, and advice with Web development professionals Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:47:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim Storch http://blog.reindel.com/2007/11/06/make-the-a-grade-or-fail-trying/#comment-21485 Jim Storch Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:13:44 +0000 http://blog.reindel.com/2007/11/06/make-the-a-grade-or-fail-trying/#comment-21485 I have to disagree, Brian. Every critic of IE includes a comment about how Microsoft walked away from it for half a decade. We've heard it so often that it's easy to dismiss but c'mon, -- the web is THE monstrous, game changing revolution in IT and Microsoft had zero interest in advancing it. They are solidly committed to intercepting the user on his way to it through, which makes things doubly worse. As a developer, I hate IE; borked box models, non-transparent PNG's, no hope at all for cool stuff like SVG, and so on. I see my peers trying to distort new tricks from old technology and I can't help but wonder what a rich and exciting platform we might have today if MS hadn't dropped anchor. If we don't squeak some wheels over IE nothing is going to change. Those compliant-browser only devs are heroes (in nerdy Webdev City). Cheers. I have to disagree, Brian.

Every critic of IE includes a comment about how Microsoft walked away from it for half a decade. We’ve heard it so often that it’s easy to dismiss but c’mon, — the web is THE monstrous, game changing revolution in IT and Microsoft had zero interest in advancing it. They are solidly committed to intercepting the user on his way to it through, which makes things doubly worse.

As a developer, I hate IE; borked box models, non-transparent PNG’s, no hope at all for cool stuff like SVG, and so on. I see my peers trying to distort new tricks from old technology and I can’t help but wonder what a rich and exciting platform we might have today if MS hadn’t dropped anchor.

If we don’t squeak some wheels over IE nothing is going to change. Those compliant-browser only devs are heroes (in nerdy Webdev City).

Cheers.

]]> By: Because Internet Explorer is a Failure, That’s Why - Push cx http://blog.reindel.com/2007/11/06/make-the-a-grade-or-fail-trying/#comment-21222 Because Internet Explorer is a Failure, That’s Why - Push cx Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:13:56 +0000 http://blog.reindel.com/2007/11/06/make-the-a-grade-or-fail-trying/#comment-21222 [...] About once a month since Firefox came out and was promptly recognized as a six-gallon bucket of awesome I read a blog post about how developers are lazy, shiftless bastards because they don’t want to support Internet Explorer anymore. Most recently I read Brian Reindel make this claim, so I’m going to pick on him while I rebut this insult. [...] [...] About once a month since Firefox came out and was promptly recognized as a six-gallon bucket of awesome I read a blog post about how developers are lazy, shiftless bastards because they don’t want to support Internet Explorer anymore. Most recently I read Brian Reindel make this claim, so I’m going to pick on him while I rebut this insult. [...]

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