Screw Internet Explorer
Published: August 4th, 2007Time to boycott IE, I’ve had enough of it’s frustrations; haven’t you?
I can’t express my complete hatred towards the abomination of compatibility: Internet Explorer. I’m designing a new layout for my blog, and just to point out, I’m not going to support IE. I don’t think anyone that uses IE deserves to read my blog in the first place, why would someone in my target audience “Technical, Geeks”, use IE?
So, as a stance, boycott time.
I think the entire community of developers needs to do this. Seriously, think about it… How many hours of pain has IE caused you? Trying to look up google for IE hacks, blah blah, screw it. Just stop supporting it, and force people to use Firefox or Safari.
I’m done for now.
Explore that.
We recently created a site where we sell funny t-shirts for programmers. We got sick of working with IE, and completely banned all IE users from our site. They all get dumped to a special landing page that doesn’t let them inside our site.
At CodeSmack, we fired our IE customers, and never looked back. We even designed a t-shirt mocking IE users. It’s been among our most popular. For our demographic, it was a no-brainer decision: IE users weren’t deserving of our shirts, just as they aren’t deserving of your blog. :-)
@Tim,
That’s hilarious. I love a lot of those shirts. I think I may get that DHH one, or maybe “I won’t break the build”. Really funny stuff, thanks for the laugh.
Kudos to Daniel, and to Tim, for having the guts to make a stand. May many follow in your footsteps.
There is nothing more depressing than designing a page that looks gorgeous in Safari and Firefox, only to fire up IE and see a hideous monster staring back at you :/
Ready. Set. Go.
In terms of the formatting, you're allowed to use markdown, textile, or basic html; it's truly up to you -- what strikes your fancy?
You don't have to worry about your e-mail address being sold to a russian-spam-mafia. I'm only going to use it for my own weird needs; like asking you out for a date on a lonely night of coding.