After spending the last two days engaged in hand-to-hand combat with IE6 –Â whining and wishing IE6 would just roll over and die — the folks over at IEblog announce that I IE8 is officially being discussed.
I’m probably a little bit more optimistic than some of the commenters in that post. The amount of animosity developers have towards Internet Explorer (and Microsoft in general) is amazing. I’m not saying it isn’t warranted. Had IE6 developers decided to support PNG’s way back when IE6 was launched, I probably could have added a year’s worth of sleep to my life.
But sometimes I wonder if it’s a little out of hand. It’s like watching the Dixie Chicks in their documentary, Shut Up and Dance, except I guess in this lame analogy, we’re the morons who would run bulldozers over their records.
Just discovered this handy plugin the other day: jQuery ifixpng.
I typically use conditional comments and place all of my AlphaImageLoader nonsense in there so that only IE6 will be served the crazy. After all, IE7 can understand the filters, and based on my own testing, it doesn’t seem to like the AlphaImageLoader much (go to a page with the filter applied using IE7 and then hit cntrl +).
It’s like that scene from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, when Robin Spitz Swallows gets machine-gunned, fragged, thrown out of a building, and Austin asks incredulously, “Why won’t you die?”
It’s what I’m asking IE6 right now. The browser-that-needed-to-die this-year still controls 40% of the browser market share as of November 2007. 40%!
What happened to all that talk about how the Windows automatic update feature would rapidly accelerate the adoption of IE7?
IE6 experienced it’s biggest drop in January – February of this year, when it dropped from 54% to 49%. Since then, however, it’s been hanging on like a cockroach, dropping about one percent each month.
By Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 2, 2007
The contrast in their exit strategies told the story better than perhaps anything that happened on the Coliseum field Saturday afternoon.
Embattled UCLA Coach Karl Dorrell stared stonily ahead, a phalanx of security officers trailing in his wake as he made his way to the tunnel and the possible end of his tenure with the Bruins.
A few minutes later, a grinning USC Coach Pete Carroll bounded toward the locker room, a brief stop on his way to another season-ending date for the Trojans in the Rose Bowl.
“We were in command the whole time,” a beaming Carroll said without breaking stride.
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By CLARENCE E. HILL, JR.
chill@star-telegram.com
IRVING — On a night for past champions at Texas Stadium, the Cowboys might have taken a big step toward crowning a new one.The much-anticipated showdown with the Green Bay Packers appeared to be an early Cowboys blowout before becoming a game of survival.
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