What’s Worse than IE?
It sucks whenever I see the layout I coded for a couple of hours be destroyed right in front of me just by using the most popular browser out there. IE. It’s a browser I can’t live with but I can’t live without it either. I used to think that there’s nothing more hideous than that and there could never be anything worse than that, until the other night.
The other night is crunch time for us because it’s a deadline and we have to put a client’s site live. Of course, after deploying it to the live server, we have to check it again to make sure there are no major bugs left uncaught. That and we have to check the entire site in IE because IE is such a bitch like that. You would think that it’s perfect then you turn around and see that it’s horrible again.
So basically, earlier in the day, I installed the IE7 standalone program for parallels so I could see any site on both IE7 and IE6 and still be able to use IE Developer Toolbar (it makes dealing with IE easier after all). I noticed however that when I’m logged in on IE6, I’m also automagically logged in on IE7 too. I thought that there must be a mistake somewhere so I restarted my copy of windows but it turned matters to worse. Now I can’t see anything n IE6! I would enter the URL in IE6 and it would appear in IE7, I uninstalled IE7 Standalone but now, IE6 stopped working all together. And it was 6 in the evening already! And we caught several IE bugs! I should have taken the registry fix … But whatever. Thankfully, my boss took his tablet PC with him so I borrowed it for a while but… it couldn’t connect to the server in my machine despite the fact that we share the same network.
See how frustrating that is? Now I promise that I won’t make a big fuss whether IE breaks my layout or not. Just make the freakin’ browser work! Or is there anything more frustrating than this?
By the way, the issue was resolved (thankfully), I switched networks, I switched the network that that PC is using too (LOL) so I could edit it my local server and my boss went to the search team’s table to check the site in their computer after editing the CSS in the main server. It was so funny, there we were, 6, 7, 8 in the evening and we’re all still in the office on a Friday night, they already fixed the bugs and they couldn’t deploy yet because IE’s still wrong LOL (that’s why it was edited in the main server). I think crunch time is nice though tiring, I slept for 10 hours and I don’t feel like doing anything the next day.
What’s worse than IE? How about Netscape 4? Hehehe.
haha haven’t tried that yet :P
IE, specifically IE 6, is a web designer’s nightmare. lol.
whew, that is why i’d rather design na lang, HTML/css team namin ang namomroblema dun hehe.
@Joni, so true!! :D
@Liz ahahay… hehehe I don’t think I can design as good as you and Joni and Riz though :(
Oooh techie techie. I dabbled with HTML years ago. I can still do layouts with it, but I’m stuck with HTML. Never had time to learn other languages.
About your pedometer question… Ang pangalan po ng store is Japan Home Center. Meron sa Park Square 1 at sa Walter Mart, both in Makati. Thanks for dropping by my blog! Will visit your nice blog again.
It’s a browser I can’t live with but I can’t live without it either.
Now that’s a quotable quote. And you’ve driven the point bulls eye. I’m not so comfortable with IE, so I work with Mozilla Firefox which suits my needs better. A great site you have here.
well IE happens life goes on lolrofl :)
What’s worse than IE? It’s the company that deliberately disobeys web standards. :)
Seriously, there’s no escaping IE and we might as well find ways to create clean markups and design so we can minimize the impact of IE’s bugs.