{"id":2193,"date":"2008-05-06T07:14:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T11:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2008-05-06T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T11:16:29","slug":"why-i-hate-microsoft-cont-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/2193","title":{"rendered":"Why I Hate Microsoft, cont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer sucks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been tweaking my site over the past couple days, and it has renewed my absolute hatred for Internet Explorer, and through it, Microsoft. Why? Because Microsoft can&#8217;t be bothered to follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/\">w3c<\/a>&#8216;s guidelines and standards.<\/p>\n<p>I primarily write my code by hand. I&#8217;ll use Dreamweaver to simplify tasks involving content, but when it comes to layout I always work with the code, be it for HTML, CSS, or php. (Different web design languages.) Thus, I know that I am following web standards, because I&#8217;m writing the code myself (and, I admit, I have multiple reference books I check to make sure I&#8217;m writing things correctly.)<\/p>\n<p>What ticks me off is when I write correct code, and IE ignores it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/\">front page for my website<\/a>. I created pure CSS menus that appear when you place your mouse over an option. (Starting with the Cats option there are no menu options to appear, so it&#8217;s not broken.) This hover menu works in Firefox, Seamonkey, Netscape, Safari, and IE7. But not IE6. (I think they worked in Opera, but I no longer have Opera installed on any of my computers.) When I saw that this was fixed for IE7, I was delighted, thinking that Microsoft was finally going to follow web standards, especially when I discovered that IE7 also supports fixed positioning (see <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/pictures\/p2008\/pics2008.php\">here for an example<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But no, I was wrong, IE7 still doesn&#8217;t follow all web standards. So the menus in all <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/Fantasy.php\">my book pages<\/a> work in Safari, Netscape, Firefox, Seamonkey (and I think Opera) but not IE6 or IE7. Considering the amount of work I put into creating and maintaining those menus, this really irks me.<\/p>\n<p>And, I discovered yesterday, that IE still screws up layout; I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s still rendering margins incorrectly. So I had to tweak a perfectly constructed layout, to fix the fact that IE was overlapping layers.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not the products per se that bug me, but Microsoft&#8217;s arrogance in refusing to follow the web standards used by every other web browser. So whoever is behind that monumentally bad idea has best stay out of my way, or I&#8217;ll kick them soundly in the shins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer sucks. I&#8217;ve been tweaking my site over the past couple days, and it has renewed my absolute hatred for Internet Explorer, and through it, Microsoft. Why? Because Microsoft can&#8217;t be bothered to follow the w3c&#8216;s guidelines and standards. I primarily write my code by hand. 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