Comments on: Sounds Right

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:47:09 +0000

There is a time to let go. No one should spend money accommodating legacy software when there are free updates, or better programs that actually follow the agreed standards.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:51:58 +0000

I set up a WordPress site for our Jeep club and had to hack on the template a bit to put our logo at the top left (it turns out to be more difficult than expected, I had to hack both the page header template *and* the stylesheet). I shudder to think of what IE7 would make of what I did. But it’s a club site, and I’m donating both the hosting and the expertise, so I don’t really care — if it looks ugly in some member’s browser, I’ll personally hop into my Jeep, drive to his house, and install Firefox on his computer :).

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:26:30 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates. WordPress templates are liberally endowed with IE7 checks, especially the style sheets, but even then the pages are not the same. I seem to remember that that was the period when Sun and M$ were having their war over Java and Javascript engines. I ended up downloading the official Sun engine to keep my browser working for more than an hour [if I was lucky].

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:46:21 +0000

Oh, I remember IE7, yes indeedy I do. I had just completed my first (and only, as it turned out) AJAX app. It worked in the current Firefox and in IE6 with no problems. Just as my client and I were ready to release the app to their customers, M$ excreted IE7. Some peculiarity in the timing caused IE7’s JavaScript events to fire in a slightly different order under one critical circumstance… different from Firefox, but also different from IE6.

M$ won that one: we had to delay the release by about 10 days. The customer was PO’ed at us. We were PO’ed at M$. The workaround was something straight out of the pit of Hell to which M$ programmers are consigned. I’ll never forget… or forgive… that one.