Microsoft-specific code friendly to Internet Explorer (no surprise) but poisons real browsers like Firefox and Safari


Firefox among all the alternatives to Internet Explorer may be taking a big bite out of the unworthy number one browser, but IE-specific code dating back years continues to poison the fox and every other browser, primarily because there are too many sites developed using Microsoft products and designed to work correctly only with IE.

But what’s worse: a website designed to work properly only in IE under Windows (because it contains Microsoft-specific coding thanks to amateurish use of inherently shite Microsoft products), or the fact that you get ignored when you send very polite and extremely nice emails letting the site owners know their pages don’t load correctly under Mac OS X, with both the Safari and Firefox browsers? Actually, both are very annoying.

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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Bye bye Netscape


It had its day in the sunshine many years ago, but the news that Netscape Navigator has been killed off by AOL marks the end of a milestone product in the history of the Internet. I can’t help but feel a little sad even though I stopped using the browser some time around the end of the last century (wow, that makes it sound a very long time ago, doesn’t it?).

I began using the Internet in 1994 and back then I was studying at Goldsmiths College, University of London for my degree in English and Theatre Arts. Computers were used by nerds, not by the masses, but I’d been reading about the Internet in newspapers and thought it might be useful in researching my dissertation, which was a comparison of the geography of Faerie in Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. So I ventured into the computer labs of the university and the only browser available to use on the network was Netscape.

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Friday, January 4th, 2008

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