resolution, at last
jason complained my blogs are too nerdy. dont worry jason im sure ill start blogging more casual stuff as i slowly become consumed with WoW and have finished building out my entire site.
so after a phone conversation today with a client, we discussed all the problems we were facing with the website and she just finally agreed, fuck os9 users and their browser problems, lets move forward using technology that doesnt suck!
for those of you who arent so fortunate, i pity you, but i guess all lessons are good lessons. i got to revisit how shitty ie5 is and moreover, the problems with mac ie5.
things to consider when developing a website and you need compliance with mac ie5 in os9, and things to consider if you have a mac and for some godforsaken reason, you dont want to upgrade to osx. things to consider when you have to develop for windows ie 5.1 and windows ie 5.5.
- mac ie 5.0, 5.2.3 does not support flash transparency
- mac ie 5.0, 5.2.3, win ie 5.5 does not support background layer transparency
- os9 browser options are limited, there is an old mozilla build, 1.2.1, however due to lack of developer interest and resources it never got beyond that
- mac ie 5.0, 5.2.3 does not support many forms of javascript and breaks commonly used javascripts, including dreamweavers rollover (specifically the body onload pre cacheing of images)
- all forms of ie 5.* break the crap out of css2
there was a time when i created many websites to function appropriately in ie5, considering it was the browser of choice in 1999, but since then browsers have come a long way… a long long way, even ie6 itself has vastly improved, regardless of how much you hate it.
in the end, i urge mac users to upgrade to osx and use safari or firefox and avoid using ie5.*. I urge the entire world to upgrade..
-jamie
mac is web programmers bane… correction, Microsoft mac products.
Is WoW stuff supposed to be less geeky then your other posts?
Is WoW stuff supposed to be less geeky then your other posts?
well i dont know if WoW is any less geeky but when im off playing games id be less likely to blog about webdev stuff i guess. plus jason would probably relate to WoW associated posts since he played AO a lot with me.