Comments on: An Open Letter to You, Webmaster II

By: Matthew McKinney

Matthew McKinney — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:10:24 +0000

@Robin Cannon: I am not a Pro, however I have noticed that in IE8 you have an option to support sites/pages that were specifically written for an older browser version. So, if a client wants/needs to support an older version because they have software that was written or is going to be written specifically for an older browser then they have that option with IE8. So, we can still drop IE6 with respect to new code when a client has that sort of need. Unless, of course, you are the one coding for the older browser then you would have to accommodate this need, but for the most part I don’t see a need to support IE6.

I never have liked IE anyway. I tend to support it last in my code, but I am not doing this a a profession. I just love to write code even though I am not good I still have fun and I am getting better thanks to people willing to help me learn.

Great letter.

By: mahdi

mahdi — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:45:59 +0000

Cool letter , haha Sometimes I find my self lazy on css shorthands ….
Good reminding . I always forget if the font size is first or font weight .

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:42:35 +0000

@Derrick Nelson: Haha ok so entire paragraphs was definitely an exaggeration, but I often find myself capitalising nav links, headers and other items for readability or design reasons. There’s nothing wrong with that, thanks to CSS text-transform.

By: Derrick Nelson

Derrick Nelson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:37:06 +0000

@Ben: I don’t use capitalized text at all, save for acronyms. If you are in the habit of capitalizing entire paragraphs, you are definitely a “webmaster” ;)

@Facundo Corradini: I don’t agree that uppercase text ever looks good as anything but an abbreviation. There are many other ways to accentuate headers and logos besides transforming them to caps. Besides, most logos are graphical, and you can’t text-transform those, anyway ;)

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:36:52 +0000

@dailce: Use this for PNG fixing in IE6
http://www.dillerdesign.com/experiment/DD_belatedPNG/

By: dailce

dailce — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:35:12 +0000

Where is he now? (the guy in the picture) LOL

Anyway, I got my ie6 style fixed up, however, still can’t find the right png fix :( Man I hate ie6!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:46:49 +0000

Slightly unrelated, but I just looked at this blog on my android phone, styled PERFECTLY for mobile! Kudos David!

By: John Soon

John Soon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:00:36 +0000

That picture is hilarious!!

By: Sean Hood

Sean Hood — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:49:12 +0000

@dailce: Using either mootools, jQuery or another framework isn’t bad but once you start adding 3-4 it gets messy.

Fixing IE6 issues is like feeding a fussy eater and that you will learn how they like their food/CSS and i find IE Tester quite good for testing IE6.

By: dailce

dailce — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:40:43 +0000

I use js framworks, mootools or jquery, are you saying it’s bad to use a single framework? Don’t get it :(

As for ie6, I hate it, too hard to fix the errors and png issues, yes I’m a rookie. How can I test ie6 on Windows?