Comments for New Media Initiatives

Comment on Web and video standards roundup by Eric Ishii Eckhardt

Eric Ishii Eckhardt — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:21:15 +0000

If your resident Javascript wizard has some advice on this stuff I’m all ears.

Comment on Testing time-lapse software by Fredrik Skog

Fredrik Skog — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:05:24 +0000

That’s a great way to document the building of an exhibition! I’ll hunt through our boxes with discarded cameras and see if I can’t find one that works for this. Thanks for the tip.

Comment on IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) by markus

markus — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:48:23 +0000

ABSOLUTELY! 1st time I’ve heard it said, tho I oft wondered, for as you pointed out, IE7 is woefully off-kilt in the standards department, IE8 thumbs it’s nose….but then…

I just realized… WE”VE GONE (and come) TOO FAR!

we now have viable non IE and Non PC browsers (Iphone, Blackberry,PlayStation..Nintendo WII) all with their unique foibles and idiosyncrasies, much like IE used to /still has BUT FAR LESS DOCUMENTED.
Anybody run into the WII/Opera content bug? or the PSP innerHTML errors? or no ajax? (you can kludge it though)
Its gotten so bad that its too bad. there are NO STANDARDS (unless you are standardizing about stuff people dont care about :(
Nice rant…several years too late…

Comment on IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) by Nate Solas

Nate Solas — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:49:39 +0000

@david nystuen – I rather think it’s due to the thousands of extra hours by dedicated designers like Brent that you haven’t had many issues with IE. But that’s the whole point – imagine a website where those thousands of hours could be spent on actual features and polish for the browsers that adhere to standards instead of dragging IE 6 along?

Comment on IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) by Brent Gustafson

Brent Gustafson — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:14:02 +0000

@xcv The most recent version (9.6) certainly does. Opera has been one of the leaders on HTML5 integration into their browser.

Comment on IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) by xcv

xcv — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:31:30 +0000

Opera 9 also do not support HTML5 and CSS3…

Comment on IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) by CalmQuiet

CalmQuiet — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:23:48 +0000

I don’t know why no comments *here*, but you’re “getting some love” on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=710507

Comment on IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) by John

John — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:22:15 +0000

I don’t know if this is cruel after all you’re argument is sound but I think you’re likely the one who doesn’t understand the bigger picture. Well, at least don’t be stupid :)

Comment on IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) by david nystuen

david nystuen — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:30:54 +0000

Having used IE for years with no problems, maybe your proble is you.

Comment on IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8) by pbhj

pbhj — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:12:28 +0000

IE7 has already gone in my opinion. I agree with everything else though. IE8 is a relief after supporting IE6 but it’s going to get tiresome pretty sharpish unless they make a move towards CSS3.

Acid 3 results speak volumes: Opera, Chrome and Saf @ 100% (including dev versions), FF (Gecko) 94%, KHTML 80%+ … IE (Trident) 20% !

IE was 4 years behind Safari in passing Acid2.

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