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M$ IEBlog-Team asks for “Please check your pages”

October 13th, 2005

The IE developer team now discovered, after it fixed some if it’s nasy CSS bugs, that quite some pages will start to break if IE is put into Standards mode and you’re using CSS Hacks to work around the current < = IE 6 bugs.

So what’ you’re take on it? Help or dismiss the news?

I for myself don’t have much time and even haven’t access to their current IE7 beta (it has only been released to a small audience). One of the comments in the blog sums it up for me (but not that harsh):

I have wasted a lot of time finding workarounds for your standard-ignorant browser. I had to make a lot of design tradeoffs because your unability to e.g. render PNG properly.

Honestly, I do not care about the issues you got now. I won’t remove a single workaround for your buggy stuff again. You messed it up, now it’s also your turn to find a solution for it.

Microsoft never paid my time I’ve wasted to get the pages in their browser right. Right, my company did, but M$ browser was responsible for increasing the time to work and the countless hours of pain without free proper tools to find the problems (I don’t consider the ScriptDebugger proper, compare it to Venkman. It’s not only about functionality but also how it integrations).

Another good one:

First you’re building cars with triangular tires, and people had to build roads with holes on it, and now you’re complaining your new car with round tires can not drive on these roads.

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