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10/26/09
Oh well. I guess the "normies" will just never understand the way of us geeks. #geocities
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Not that I ever doubted, of course. #geocities
10/26/09
Love the black text on the black background, and the notice at the bottom saying "Best viewed in Netscape Navigator 4.7 or better at 800x480" #geocities
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Why? This is quite possibly the best leap forward we can have for standardization of code since now people will be forced to learn xHTML. Is it complicated? NO! And this plagueland of table and HTML 2.0 is thanfully disappearing.
Now if Microsoft could just pull the damn plug on IE6. #geocities
10/26/09
No, the "best leap forward" would be for the companies holding themselves back because of worry of breaking their intranets to realize that IE8 has a compatibility mode. That, or actually put time into their infrastructure. #geocities
10/26/09
It's a bit more complicated for companies to upgrade their stuff since they have to do a large business case to know the different problems related to upgrading:
A) Will the computer support it
B) Will the intranet support it
C) What are the cost of doing such an upgrade (Man hours)
Once the business case is done, they ask the budget to do it. Annnnnnnnd usually the snag is there. The people holding the money usually know nothing about the internet and know all about RIO (Return on investment) and the people in IT knows little about RIO and a lot about the internet.
Here you are pleading security issues, problems related to many many mis-uses of the software. But the money holding only see one thing and one thing only, the cost and how much it will bring more money to them. AKA, most of the time, they'll say no since that very money that could help the company to run faster will be invested in PR/Marketting/Shenanigans that give 'em immediate results.
So here we are, 10 years after the birth of the bloatware known as IE6 still quite thriving in enterprises. Reason being? Microsoft will still support XP users (and Internet Explorer 6 users) until 2014. While the world try to advance, the situation mentioned earlier will only bring one thing upon us. The stop in tech investment.
My only hope here, is that at some point, big companies will do it right soon so we don't have to be suspended into a infinite hiatus of pure IE6-ery. #geocities
10/26/09
It's called MySpace. #geocities
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Guys, seriously. Don't drink and code. #geocities
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