I finally have Firefox 3. It hasn't solved my LJ comment indenting problem. I guess I'll post on the support board, but it strikes me as really weird that nobody else has mentioned it, and there doesn't seem to be much point posting on a holiday weekend. Anyway, someone'll probably just quote some irrelevant point from the FAQ at me.
Not that Google has even the teensiest amount of self-interest in this issue now, oh no no no! Not that I would necessarily object to IE 6 dying. Unfortunately, until they do something to make Exchange Server more compatible with other browsers -- which will happen someday after the twelfth of never -- or until IE 8 comes out and gets annointed with the approval of our IS department, I'm stuck with the critter.
I will admit that the one major benefit of no longer doing web development is not having to sit there and go, "It works in Firefox! It works in Safari! It even works in Opera! and ... do we have to look at it in IE? Really? ... Well, hell." The latest version of our website only completely works in IE, and that only because it's somehow set such that when you tell IE to change text size -- our designers were unfortunately members of the Teeny Type Brigade -- it basically says, "Yeah, right. I spit on your desire to be able to read this site! Ptui!" In Firefox and Safari, the text size changes, and you wind up with text in one section overlaying text in the one above. Very very Special.
FWIW, I can't find any indication that Google updated the Webkit that they used to develop Chrome to a newer version, and they don't seem to keep a Chrome changelog, so it's probably still a profoundly unsecure browser, as these things go.
AMEN. The latest version of the CMS that we produce is officially unsupported in IE6 (at least the admin stuff) and we all did the dance of "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD" when it released. Except now we have people who won't upgrade because they need IE6 for other products.
Anyway ... the sooner we move away from IE6 the better. I use Firefox for most things on my home PC except Gmail (which is in a Chrome application shortcut) and occasionally Opera when I feel like being different. IE7 only gets used for Netflix streaming and it aggravates me every time I have to switch over.
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on 2009-01-02 12:14 am (UTC)I finally have Firefox 3. It hasn't solved my LJ comment indenting problem. I guess I'll post on the support board, but it strikes me as really weird that nobody else has mentioned it, and there doesn't seem to be much point posting on a holiday weekend. Anyway, someone'll probably just quote some irrelevant point from the FAQ at me.
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on 2009-01-02 12:20 am (UTC)I will admit that the one major benefit of no longer doing web development is not having to sit there and go, "It works in Firefox! It works in Safari! It even works in Opera! and ... do we have to look at it in IE? Really? ... Well, hell." The latest version of our website only completely works in IE, and that only because it's somehow set such that when you tell IE to change text size -- our designers were unfortunately members of the Teeny Type Brigade -- it basically says, "Yeah, right. I spit on your desire to be able to read this site! Ptui!" In Firefox and Safari, the text size changes, and you wind up with text in one section overlaying text in the one above. Very very Special.
FWIW, I can't find any indication that Google updated the Webkit that they used to develop Chrome to a newer version, and they don't seem to keep a Chrome changelog, so it's probably still a profoundly unsecure browser, as these things go.
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on 2009-01-02 01:51 am (UTC)Anyway ... the sooner we move away from IE6 the better. I use Firefox for most things on my home PC except Gmail (which is in a Chrome application shortcut) and occasionally Opera when I feel like being different. IE7 only gets used for Netflix streaming and it aggravates me every time I have to switch over.
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