Monday, January 18, 2010

Go Away IE (part 2)

As a continuation from my previous entry here's exactly what I'm talking about...
This is an custom administration screen for Frequently Asked Questions for one of my customers. This is the list of Questions in Chrome...
Listing in Chrome
Then when an item is clicked on the Edit window appears...
Edit Window in Chrome

Everything looks and works great. Then I check the page in Internet Explorer...
Listing in IE
Edit Window in IE

As you can see, IE is very bad at handling proper spacing and layout of elements and it doesn't even handle many things such as rounded corners at all (which may sound trite but rounded corners on elements is an important design aesthetic used to make it clear where one element ends and another begins).

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Go Away IE!

Web developers spend time writing code to make beautiful and featureful websites. They use various codes that your web browser software (whether it FireFox, Chrome, Safari, etc) uses to make a pleasing aesthetic layouts. Until the code is viewed with Internet Explorer. IE which will not adopt modern 3.0 standards and instead struggles to implement outdated 2.1 standards and even those are implemented incorrectly, it mutilates the nice pleasing layout the developer worked so hard to create. Now the developer has to spend vast amounts of additional time plus butcher their code losing quality in all the other modern browsers to make things as similar as possible in IE. Quality is lost, time is lost, updates and improvements are more difficult, all because IE sucks! Many developers even give up on IE and simply decide if you're using IE you'll just miss out of a lot of the features. The Internet could be so much better and further along if developers didn't have to spend half their time trying to keep the dead dog limping along!

If you want a very simple and fast browser try Google Chrome http://chrome.google.com
Or if you want a very highly customizable and add-on rich browser try Firefox http://www.firefox.com