800x600 and IE 6 users on blizzpub? (Page 1 of 2)

Using some alpha in one of the upcoming themes yeah, but it's for smaller stuff like gradiants, which are much easier to do with alpha, since you'll only need one background image and such. The main reason to drop IE6 like it's hot is the pain in using css pervasively and making it render correctly on modern browsers (anything but ie6, basically) as well as ie6.

As for the stats: 2.26% use 800x600, 9.75% use IE6. None of our actual users seem to be using IE6 however, and the rest can upgrade if they want to visit the site going forward. We will still keep this theme IE6 compatible however.

<Bill_> it really, really hurts to say this
<Bill_> really
<Bill_> but prencher, you were right

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Upgrade to IE7. =P

  It depends on your target market.  Worldwide, more people use IE6 than IE7.   If I were making amazon.com, it'd be inexcusable to drop IE6 support or not support 800x600.  But on BlizzPub, it's a much smaller percentage, since we target gamers, who tend to use higher resolutions, faster PC's, and keep their PC's more up to date.

"Throw away logic and kick reason to the curb"

I sent a U2U to wc3kid about his condescending attitude and misguided assumptions displayed in his post, urging him to abandon them, instead of posting it here. I'm going to ignore the post because those assumptions apparently led him to paint some bizarre portrait of my corporate experience and abilities which is in no way reflective of reality.

Crast, yeah believe me, I'm more than familiar with the need for IE compliance, and I was already clear on why Blizzpub can do this, given the small userbase of people with unusually high technical competency. My post still holds true - I yern for the ability to tell all of my users to go fuck themselves and get Firefox instead of IE, knowing that it will never happen. The only thing less encouraging than the grip of IE on the general populace is the administration's fierce defense of it as a browsing standard here at Columbia.

Especially in the world of programming where 'random tiny' pieces of code are usually the most important and/or destructive if they are wrong.

This is why I hate writing code.

My biggest question is why you take everything as a personal attack against your very soul.  Calm down dude, lighten up.

Oh Columbia... their "fierce defense of IE as a browsing standard" is right up there with decisions like hosting a chat with Iran's dictat*er* President. Seems you fit right in with a bunch of people who coddle/giggle at known terrorists and then go for huge sensationalism on tiny things.

The Pub administration made this announcement as a courtesy - nobody here really needs to use the forums. So my post stands as a reply to you and your reference to your job... A place that, according to you, depends on IT systems to conduct business. Yet, when it comes down to the real key part of your job - TEST/QA, you admittedly dropped the ball. So instead of owning up to it, you deflect. Don't worry, it's common everywhere in the corporate world so you're not alone by any stretch. Just trying to save you some grief down the road by thinking about doing something else now... whatever, though. Take it all personally and get into a lather about it. It's cool.

I admit that I made a mistake, but it was only a mistake because IE is poorly designed. I guess you didn't know that?

Now its just hilarious. You didn't read anything since your post. I'm a developer, not a tester. I do my own testing, yes, and this bug was caught by the QA team long before launch. You're saying you never ever made a single error during your entire career? Even on tiny stuff? Laughable. I understand now that this is all just a big joke. Awesome, it was really funny. BTW good job on never making a single mistake on any tiny thing ever, wc3kid, you apparently are perfect in every way.

Wrong. You can read, right?

There you go.

Small errors in code, especially ones that occur from compatibility differences, especially when the compatibility in question is retardedly designed, is hardly "my" mistake any more than it is the failure of a poorly designed product. However, I did own up to it, in fact, if you recall, I TOLD THE STORY ABOUT HOW I MADE A MISTAKE. Pretty hard to do that without admitting that I was the one that made the mistake, don't you think? I didn't deflect, and I can hardly be blamed for what I did. To call what I did "dropping the ball" then you must have never made any kind of similar mistake yourself.

There's a pretty obvious line between "giving advice" and insulting someone with condescension. I guess if I told some of you people that I think it would be a good idea to "grow some eyes" and "stop being retarded" that it would just be me giving you friendly advice, and wouldn't count as an insult at all, right?

I've mentioned in almost every post, including the FIRST POST I made before any of this started, that I did make a mistake. How am I not owning up to it?

Here, for the idiots out there:

I made the mistake.
I made the mistake.
I made the mistake.

Happy? I just did it 3 times. Maybe I should do it some more? I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake. I made the mistake.

Its only a mistake because its a compatibility problem with a poorly designed system. To call that dropping the ball is to say that you never made a mistake of your own.

You're damn right that it's retarded. I dont know why people feel like they have to give me "advice" thinly disguised as hate every time I make any kind of innocuous post here.