Comments on: Bill Gates Can Kiss My Ass

By: Christopher Michael Pastore

Christopher Michael Pastore — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:24:26 +0000

@Steve Warshaw You are kidding right? IE adheres to web standards better than Firefox? LOL Even IE7 doesn’t adhere to the full set. IE6 is a pathetic mess. If your comment was to be sarcastic then forgive my comments, if not it is clear that you have no understanding of web standards.

@sean This is what web designers and developers go through every day. Microsoft has been a stain on the web for years now. Finally they are coming around to it. Unfortunely IE7 still doesn’t cut it fully. It is a step in the right direction. Let us see what happens with IE8.

My browser of choice is Safari 3 on the Mac. As far as support for CSS Safari passes the Acid2 Test , Firefox 2 still doesn’t. Also Firefox is way to slow on a Mac and doesn’t adhere to interface guidelines on the OS.

Hopefully Safari will pass the Acid 3 test soon. Firefox 3 Beta 5 does already which is great. Here is some testing results I did this morning with the most current builds of each browser on both platforms.

Acid2
———-
IE6 (windows) fails
IE7 (windows) fails
Safari 3 (mac) passes
Firefox 2.0.0.13 (mac) fails
Opera 9.27 (mac) passes

Acid3
——–
IE6 (windows) fails 11/100
IE7 (windows) fails 11/100
Safari 3 (mac) fails 75/100
Firefox 2.0.0.13 (mac) fails 53/100
Firefox 2.0.0.13 (windows) fails 53/100
Opera 9.27 (mac) fails 43/100
Opera 9.27 (windows) fails 46/100

Once again Safari leads the pack… another reason for choosing it as my preferred browser.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:44:40 +0000

@Abby - Honestly, I don’t know. I just know a browser interprets the HTML and displays it in a visual format for us to view. Some browsers interpret things a little different than others, but I don’t know why.

@Steve - Once again, thanks for all the help. And don’t worry, nobody will hold the Microsoft thing against you. Just kidding.

@Danny - It looks like the problem wasn’t IE in general. Steve checked and it looks like I’m still using IE6 and it views and functions fine in IE7. I guess, as much as it irks me, I’m going to have to upgrade my IE. Ekk.

@Rich - Thanks. That was helpful on several levels. I’m going to put in a “don’t be a dumbass; switch to FireFox” link at the comments section. I suppose I’m also have to add a “Click on the “I’m not too bright” to upgrade to IE7″ link, too.

I appreciate all of the comments and all of the help. Y’all rock. Seriously. Sorry I was a bit slow in responding, but I wanted to be able to report the fix when I responded.

Take care,

Sean

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:23:40 +0000

Ooops, wordpress went and formatted my comment.

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By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:22:32 +0000

Not that this will help much, but there is an extension for firefox called ‘ietab’ which lets you load an IE session in a firefox tab.

If you feel up to hacking, check the HTML for the page in question and look for the end form tag:

Try putting this in just before it and see what happens:

By: Danny Lister

Danny Lister — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:06:00 +0000

I know how you feel mate! I generally design sites with Firefox along side IE7 at the same time. Then I enter IE6 hack mode once complete in the above two. Danny.

By: Mark Kanty

Mark Kanty — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:15:37 +0000

Thanks for the reminder Sean. I’m so comfortable working in FF I forget to check things out over at IE.

By: James Francis

James Francis — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:42:31 +0000

Cutline rocks! Firefox rocks! IE sucks!

By: Steve Warshaw

Steve Warshaw — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:33:43 +0000

No offense man, but Bill Gates doesn’t write the code for every Microsoft Product. Also, to be clear, IE conforms more closely to the w3c specification than does FF. This is a well documented fact.

If you want me to take look at the code I will fix t for free.

By: Abby

Abby — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:34:21 +0000

why IE and not Firefox?