Brandon Wang

Sometimes, Forget IE!

Sometimes, you just want to throw out IE. Honestly. Sometimes you just wish it didn’t exist.

I am one of those people; the type of people that honestly wish that IE didn’t exist. More specifically, that IE6 wouldn’t exist. IE7 is better, but it’s all worse than Mozilla Firefox. IE6 can’t even pass an Acid test. That is just kind of sad.

I remember my original designs, making a beautiful design, uploading it, just to discover… this horrid bad light-blue border leaking through my PNGs. Although there are fixes for this, I still want to forget IE.

Unfortunately, forgetting IE isn’t as easy as just telling everyone to forget it. Every single school I have walked into seems to have seemingly forgotten about Mozilla Firefox and IE7. And the worst thing is that I can’t blame them.

Until IE6 gets phased, it’s still high on my view charts. Therefore, it has to be high on anybody’s priorities. I have compiled a list below of the things that I don’t mind losing, and that you shouldn’t mind losing either.

Pseudo-Elements

So things like li:last-child doesn’t work. Ah well. Boo hoo. Now get over it.

On this website (as of writing), pseudo elements are almost everywhere. Lists on this line have lines seperating them, but not the last item in the list. It looks a bit ackward to have an extra line there, but deal with it. It’s not a life-or-death situation. Your visitors will not die because there is a line.

[left] Firefox 3.  [right] Internet Explorer 7.

Border Radius

Remember when you saw the border-radius stuff and you started to giggle like a maniac because you thought all your rounded-corner problems were fixed? I have news for you. None of the major support it yet.

Sure, there’s browser-specific codes like -moz-border-radius and -webkit-border-radius but that’s about it. Really. So much for your dreams.

Well, guess what? Unless you are using it as a mission-critical thng (and who uses rounded corners for that), it’s okay. Take deep breaths.

Shadows

Finally, shadows. This is a biggie.

If you actually believed that, then go back to design school or whatever. Shadows. Honestly. If you actually think they are that important, then just make them into images and CSS-sprite them!

In Conclusion

In conclusion, I hope you’ve realized that there’s more to design than just these small things.

If you would like to do more research on things like this, you can view this excellent article by A Beautiful Web.

One Response to “Sometimes, Forget IE!”

1. GeekInDiguise says:

   January 2, 2010 at 10:06 pm

   I SOOO AGREE! I hate Internet Explorer. Every time I make a new design for me, or a customer, I have to spend a whole ‘nother day working out the many problems that show up in IE. I just hate it! What is wrong with Microsoft? I think they are just polluting the computer world with nonsense.

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