{"id":2458,"date":"2004-05-04T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2004-05-05T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/04\/its-still-not-my-fault\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:31:25","slug":"its-still-not-my-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/04\/its-still-not-my-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s still not my fault&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11162,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/dean.edwards.name&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11163,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/dean.edwards.name\\\/IE7\\\/intro&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11164,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/bethlet.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Okay, first things first.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <em>personal<\/em> 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&#8217; ol&#8217; me. And, me being me, I will occasionally be a bit &#8212; or even more than a bit &#8212; of a boneheaded, ranting ass. I might even enjoy it. That&#8217;s just the way it happens every so often.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t mind at all if someone <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/its_not_my_faul.html#c1088120\" title=\"I really disagree...\">calls me on it<\/a> &#8212; matter of fact, it&#8217;s a <em>good<\/em> thing that there are people who <em>will<\/em> call me on it when it happens. I&#8217;d hate to see where I could end up with an entirely unchecked ego! ;)<\/p>\n<p>That said, IE still <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/its_not_my_faul.html\" title=\"It's not my fault IE sucks. Get a real browser\">sucks<\/a>, and it&#8217;s still not my fault. ;) However, progress has been made on that front, thanks to the absolutely mindblowingly incredible technical wizardry of <a href=\"http:\/\/dean.edwards.name\/\" title=\"dean.edwards.name\/\">Dean Edwards<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/dean.edwards.name\/IE7\/intro\/\" title=\"dean.edwards.name\/IE7\/intro\/\">IE7 hack<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/bethlet.net\/\" title=\"bethlet.net\">bethlet<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/its_not_my_faul.html#c1084335\" title=\"Happy Birthday\">reminding me<\/a> of that piece of code.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;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 &#8220;screw it&#8221; attitude was a bit extreme (and probably wouldn&#8217;t really have lasted more than a couple days &#8212; 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&#8217;s really no real reason to be using IE as your primary browser anymore, and there are <em>plenty<\/em> of benefits to switching to a modern browser.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t code <em>for<\/em> IE, but I&#8217;ll at least do my best not to code <em>against<\/em> it, either.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my story, and I&#8217;m sticking to it. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IE still sucks, and it&#8217;s still not my fault. ;) However, progress has been made on that front, thanks to the absolutely mindblowingly incredible technical wizardry of Dean Edwards&#8217; IE7 hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2043,2038],"tags":[65,25],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","category-tech","tag-technology","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}