CSS debates part 5
Mostly, I think it is very good, that you are working on making the IE7 more standards compliant. I don’t think oit is a big deal, because the issue about hacks possibly not working in the future are obvious and have been referred to in countless tutorials. For my part I’ve handled it the other way around and refused to implement hacks. My motto was nice design for those that can do it, but only content for the browsers that can’t. That means that future IE7 users maybe won’t have to wonder anymore, why the design is a bit quirky. And that’s a good thing.
All these IE hacks had to be implemented because Microsoft didn’t come up with a decent web browser. Now where their share on the browser market starts to shrink a tiny little bit they want us to remove to exactly these hacks they have caused themselves. Who’s gonna pay for all this? - As you might have guessed, webdevelopers and their customers.
Microsoft - shame on you!
I hope this is just a joke! I can’t even cout up all the hours I’ve spent in the past ‘fixing’ perfectly good code so that IE can render it somewhat. Now you’re asking me to recode? Let’s put it this way: For the past 1.5 years I’ve told my developers to code corretly. The browsers that understand the code (Firefox) render it correctly. All others don’t to some degree.
This time it’s up to YOU to get your act together. We don’t code for a browser anymore. I don’t see the reason to.
But let’s look on the bright side…
I’m using PNG hacks to allow IE 5.5 + 6 to display PNGs with full alpha channel transparency. Yeah, allright, IE7 can now display alpha channels out of the box. Not only comes this feature WAY too late, but also am I NOT going to remove the hack, no matter how f*cked up PNGs will be displayed in IE7, I don’t even care if it crashes. IE 5+6 visitors are far more important to me than those few IE7 beta crackheads.
I really hope IE7 does not become the common browser.
You can’t just demand that I do the same amount of webdesign work, that I already had to do because you f*cked up all previous IE versions concerning CSS, again.
Sorry Microsofties, too sad you’ll probably never learn it.
