Xarg blog Archive

I found someone who feels more or less the same as I do about Netscape 4. From Bitworking:

I really don't care about people using Netscape 4. As a matter of fact if I could find a sequence of tags that would cause NN4 to do nasty stuff like erase your hard-drive or shoot lightning out of the screen when viewing this site I would gleefully add them. Ok, maybe that goes a little beyond a don't care attitude.

Actually, I kind of feel the same way about IE and fortunately this is in fact possible in IE (the erasing the hard-drive bit, not sure about the lightning). There are half a dozen things you have to do to support IE that are annoying and stupid and it's hard to understand why they have not been fixed. The bug with reloading things sent with gzip encoding is one and the failure to properly handle transparent PNGs is another. The arrows in my context bar and the site logo are both transparent PNGs that look great in Mozilla but have white backgrounds in IE. I have decided to build my site using things I wish worked right everywhere and eventually hopefully when most people's browsers are standards compliant it will look about the same for everyone. Until then, people using IE will assume I am a knucklehead and I will continue to loathe IE.