I Hate Sheep! : Internet Explorer is a cancer

Comment on Internet Explorer is a cancer by Ross

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:42:16 +0100

Internet Explorer is indeed evil, I quite enjoy the banner you’ve put here which I had the pleasure to encounter while browsing the ‘net on the college computers (they’ve not heard of firefox it seems). Although my brother seems to have discovered that your banner doesn’t show up on IE7, something to do with an ‘e’ missing at the end of ‘lt’.

He also thinks you might be interested in this as it’s quite useful supposedly: http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/

Ciao,

Ross

Comment on Internet Explorer is a cancer by Johnnie

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:20:38 +0100

Yeah, Dean Edwards is a genius. The IE7-o-matic is server-side, though, and a real kludge. Brilliantly clever kludge, but kludge nonetheless. I’ve found that it can give a significant slowdown on client-side load times when I’ve used it in the past. Peterned’s “whatever:hover” is a good alternative if all you want is proper support for :hover elements (as has been the case with several sites I’ve designed). It breaks w3c compatibility with a loud cracking sound, but then, so does IE6.