To Hell With Internet Explorer
ie, microsoft, web standards | (3)
Upon reading this charming post on the IEBlog (a clueless attempt at self-deprecatory humor concerning IE8), I am urged to quote from this old chestnut (links & emphases added, with apologies to Zeldman):
Old software does not support standards. [...] It would be swell if we could have backward compatibility and pure standards compliance. But we can’t. We have to choose. [...]
For years, we’ve been taught to be good little web designers, building sites that work in browsers that don’t. Each site we build the old-fashioned way becomes one more dung heap of bad code, ...