soledad penadés

repeat 4[fd 100 rt 90]

• don't tell someone which uses firefox to use internet explorer "because everybody else does it"
• don't think of designing pixel wise, don't expect people to have your screen configuration so they don't see scrollbars when you don't see them
• don't automatically resize the window of the site to fit the maximum width and height - your 1024 x 768px which seem absolutely great may be absolutely stupid if the user has 2048 or 1600 pixels wide screen
• don't use javascript for input validation only. what if user's browser has not a javascript implementation working properly (or not working at all)?
• don't use <i> and <b> - they are deprecated and you don't want to look like obsolete. use <em> and <strong> instead
• don't use <br>, &nbsp; and <img src="spacer.gif"> to position elements - that's designing pixel wise and absolutely demode…
• don't even pronounce the words "optimized for…"
• don't open pop-up's to view a site
• don't open javascript alerts without justification

See this article by mishoo: IE: Popularity theft and tell me if you don't hate even more IE.
I am wondering now if this was the cause of a project which was working under a brand new p4 machine to almost collapse the server when users browsed with their f*cking-piece-of-sh*t ie browsers. Hey… even a debian linux server couldn't resist three machines loading lots of images with ie… uurgh!
Mishoo has also more very interesting articles about ie facts, like its dangerous memory leaks, etc, etc…

Today is one of those days in which you deeply hate Internet Explorer. I had to do some dirty layouts with tables (sorryyyy) and suddenly I saw IE was adding some spaces without any reason. Table was working nicely in ie mac and firefox, so why the hell was this ie making that thing!!? Then I realized… there was a new line between the contents in the table cell. Grrr! then I cleaned that… and everything worked properly. I hate ie! it makes me lose my valuable time!
For the ones interested: it was IE6 on windows.