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one two three four i declare an ie6 war.
Mar 26th
Interesting. Looks like even our favorite Microsoft exec Steve Ballmer is on board with our little retaliation against the constant evil that is IE6.
From a Norwegian article:
Microsoft recommends end users that are browsing the web with Internet Explorer 6 to upgrade today to benefit from numerous improvements including security features and usability enhancements.
Interoperability is key to enabling developers to continue to create great user experiences on the web. Our commitment to the technical community continues with our significant investment in Internet Explorer 8.
We continue to believe in the importance of supporting the end users and encourage the technical community to work with us in securing a good transition for the users that today are using IE6.
Hope that helps
Looks like Steve Ballmer is a brother for the cause. Well, more like special consultant.
Here are other cause-related links:
Browse Sad – make your site sad for all those under-privileged IE6ers.
#IE6 – see what Twitterers are saying about IE6.
Coming soon – how to do your part, as both a developer and a user.
a declaration of war against internet explorer 6.
Mar 16th
Representing fellow web developers and web surfers alike:
We hereby declare war on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, also known as “IE6″. Our people have been suppressed under your tyrannical rule for the previous 8 years, and still many of our more ignorant and incompetent brothers are deceived by your aging technology. It is our determination that we can no longer withstand your oppressive hold on our people, forcing our developers to tirelessly accommodate for your lack of adherence to even the most basic of CSS2 standards.
Your crimes will not go unforgiven, plaguing us with diseases such as the double margin bug and your inability to handle multiple CSS classes. While your successors have marginally improved on your shortfalls, you and your governing power, Microsoft, have been unwilling to relinquish your market share grasp by ignoring the repeated requests to replace you through a required upgrade via Windows Update.
Such crimes against humanity will not go unpunished, and it is far more than a guarantee that once we, as a collective whole, have achieved independence from * html { }, you will be cast judgment by a consortium of your peers (Mozilla, Safari, Google) to an undetermined fate worse than uninstall.
Any terms of your surrender are dependent on the validity of your successors. Though our intentions are strong and our determination stronger, we inevitably harbor mentally incompetent users who are still brainwashed by your default installation schemes and continue to pine after your family of products. However, there will be no negotiation – your surrender must be absolute. You must relinquish all market share.
Our faith is in proper object model rendering and the Acid3 test. Our victory is thereby inevitable.
Signed on this 16th day of March in the year 2009,
Every person who has ever opened a web page in a web browser
cameras.
Dec 30th
I want a new camera. But I’m poor.
I’m thinking about getting a used one of these:
…only because I can’t afford one of these:
They will go great with my forthcoming new SmugMug account!
rock band.
Dec 8th
I know I’m like a year behind the times, but I finally bought Rock Band over the weekend.
And it was all the result of me being suckered into marketing.
While wasting my life away in front of the TV over the weekend, one of the 46 million Rock Band commercials came on, and I beamed in pride that I didn’t have $179 worth of plastic instruments surrounding me. But then, something happened. Rock Band for the Wii just got price dropped to $99. At least, that’s what it said on the commercial. I didn’t believe it. I wouldn’t believe it. So I went to the wise sage of knowledge – the Internet.
The rumors were true. $99 gets me a 6 month old game with an impending sequel (in a week) and a bunch of plastic instruments. A Sylar-style hunger started to rage within. I don’t hunger for powers. I hunger for plastic Stratocasters.
Long story short, I have $99 worth of plastic instruments in my apartment now. Rock Band, anyone?