Have I mentioned I hate IE?

[chipotle]

Because I do. Really. Why?

1. Futz around with XML templates.
2. Futz around with CSS.
3. Get things looking good in real browsers.
4. Try to get PNG hack to work gracefully in IE.
5. Realize CSS is broken in IE. Fix CSS.
6. Fix has broken CSS in real browsers. Make both happy.
7. IE for Windows, running on a PC on the other side of the house, isn’t happy with CSS. Make it happy. Make sure all other browsers are happy.
8. Fill out the rest of the site’s templates and “forms” (the term Textpattern uses for modules it builds pages from, which confusingly have nothing to do with the form tag in HTML).
9. Create Javascript solution to PNG problem, which creates unnecessary dependency on Javascript. Create PHP solution that doesn’t work.
10. Make site look, if not perfect, pretty darn good.
11. Fix PHP solution. Ha! No Javascript.
12. Discover IE for Windows has broken in new and different ways, as blocks which once respected the float CSS property no longer do. Check other web sites which work and fail to find any differerence other than the obvious (i.e., they work).
13. Spew extended paragraphs aloud which involve the phrase “f••kity f••k” repeatedly. Hope neighbors are not listening.

This has been my week so far. When I’m not screaming in frustration, it’s kind of fun. I think. Maybe. I suspect I’m trying to make this too “perfect,” for some value of perfect that remains ill-defined. I waffle between “this is far too plain-looking” and “adding more to it would make it busy,” suspecting that there’s a certain truth in both. I may yet add a subtle background rather than pure white, but it would have to be, well, subtle. That’s probably in the “final flourish” stage rather than the design planning stage, though.

But I bet it’ll break f••kity f••king IE for Windows.

Comments

Ahhhh....

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

You too have discovered the joys of the phrase f**kity f**k. It has gotten me through many a frustrating night...but then, I once was cursed with a Toshiba notebook computer. ;)

For what it's worth, it's heartening to see a developer work with good browsers and then try to make the resulting solution work in IE.

[musewoozle.livejournal.com]

Admittedly, I'm not too familiar with working with web applications (though I'm moving in that direction, so I'm curious). Isn't it the case, though, that different browsers will just render pages in different ways?

Is IE just different in some odd ways?

-- Jacob

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

And just think, the new Service Pack came out for IE this morning, which will probably undo 99% of all the fixes you just made!

HOORJ!

[chastmastr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loathe Internet Explorer. I prefer iCab. But various sites are set up only for IE... GRRRRR!