Okay, first things first.
This is a personal website. I speak for myself, and myself alone: not for my employer, my friends, my neighbor, my government, my country, or anyone else. Just lil’ ol’ me. And, me being me, I will occasionally be a bit — or even more than a bit — of a boneheaded, ranting ass. I might even enjoy it. That’s just the way it happens every so often.
Now, I don’t mind at all if someone calls me on it — matter of fact, it’s a good thing that there are people who will call me on it when it happens. I’d hate to see where I could end up with an entirely unchecked ego! ;)
That said, IE still sucks, and it’s still not my fault. ;) However, progress has been made on that front, thanks to the absolutely mindblowingly incredible technical wizardry of Dean Edwards‘ IE7 hack, which uses CSS and JavaScript wizardry to beat IE into behaving like a modern, standards-compliant web browser. The hack has been installed on the main page of my site (with the rest of the pages soon to follow), and the difference it makes is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Many thanks to bethlet for reminding me of that piece of code.
Last night’s post was written in a fit of frustration (and really, one that I go through just about every time I work on a redesign when I get to the point of battling with IE). While my “screw it” attitude was a bit extreme (and probably wouldn’t really have lasted more than a couple days — I just shot my mouth off this time instead of stewing quietly until a solution was found), I fully stand behind the sentiments behind it. Other people have said it before me, and will say it again later on (though possibly with more tact). Outside of corporate-decreed lock in, there’s really no real reason to be using IE as your primary browser anymore, and there are plenty of benefits to switching to a modern browser.
However, as in the real world IE is (unfortuately) not likely to go away anytime soon, all ranting aside, I will continue to at least make an attempt at supporting it. I won’t code for IE, but I’ll at least do my best not to code against it, either.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. ;)