Comments on: Letting Go of Legacy Code http://blog.ryanparman.com/2004/07/24/letting-go-of-legacy-code/ Too much straw, not enough camel Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:33:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darice http://blog.ryanparman.com/2004/07/24/letting-go-of-legacy-code/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Darice Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.skyzyx.net/?p=169#comment-510 Just today I was trying out an alert message for IE browsers. I tried using a hidden div and some css hack to show to IE only. But it messed up my layout even more under IE. My website is very anti-IE so using Firefox, Mozilla or Safari is a must to enjoy it. In the newest Opera there is a bug with my navigation, no idea how to solve that. Never liked Opera, it has some problems with positionings. Just today I was trying out an alert message for IE browsers. I tried using a hidden div and
some css hack to show to IE only. But it messed up my layout even more under IE. My website is very anti-IE so using Firefox, Mozilla or Safari is a must to enjoy it. In the newest Opera there is a bug with my navigation, no idea how to solve that. Never liked Opera, it has some problems with positionings.

]]> By: OracleGuy http://blog.ryanparman.com/2004/07/24/letting-go-of-legacy-code/comment-page-1/#comment-511 OracleGuy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.skyzyx.net/?p=169#comment-511 I agree; and of course there are the obvious security reasons that make it unwise to keep using anything below IE6. Of course the argument that people aren't smart enough to upgrade their browser, they might not even realize there are other browsers in existance, the only way they'll realize that they need to upgrade is when they start getting warnings saying the browser they are using is out of date. In a sense, supporting IE at all is being generous. I mean IE6 is three years old, that's ancient technology, practically. And the supposed IE updates promised in SP2 of XP aren't exactly <a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/23/2028258&tid=201&tid=109">around the corner</a>. I agree; and of course there are the obvious security reasons that make it unwise to keep using anything below IE6. Of course the argument that people aren’t smart enough to upgrade their browser, they might not even realize there are other browsers in existance, the only way they’ll realize that they need to upgrade is when they start getting warnings saying the browser they are using is out of date.

In a sense, supporting IE at all is being generous. I mean IE6 is three years old, that’s ancient technology, practically. And the supposed IE updates promised in SP2 of XP aren’t exactly around the corner.

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