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Lunchtime links

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During lunch, while eating a delicious chicken sandwich and scanning my usual lunchtime news sites (Digg and Slashdot) I found the following tidbits that I thought I'd share.

Web developers, just say no to Internet Explorer
An interesting little read from a frustrated developer (presumably, doesn't say what he does for a living, just what kind of company he works for), a site dedicated to trying to make 2007 and 'IE-free year', given it's poor standards-compliance. I know first-hand the pain that IE causes. Anyway, Read it! (www.nomoreiehacks.org)

Pentagon: War on terror in Iraq, caused more harm than good
From an article of the Sunday Herald on December 26th, 2006, the Pentagon has been attributed as admitting that the war on terror in Iraq has done more harm than good in terms of the objective, to win the hearts and minds of the people, removing the power from terror goups. Read It! (findarticles.com)

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3 responses to “Lunchtime links”

  1. Snooks Avatar
    Snooks

    The site logged me out, over night. Not 100% sure if I’d checked the “remember me” option during registration yesterday, so we’ll see next time I pop in if it does it again, or not.

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    I would assume that, if web developers simply stopped tailoring sites to IE, IE would have to be brought into compliance. The perception of MS’ leverage in this regard is just that: a perception.

    It wouldn’t take long for such a “strike” to be felt throughout the www. With the right press releases, and the support of Google and Mozilla, MS would be forced to fix the damned thing.

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    I hate Bush/Cheney/etc. with the fire of 1000 suns.

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  2. ryan Avatar
    ryan

    Snooks: regarding IE, unfortunately, the combination of the dominance of IE and the complete complacency of many web ‘developers’ (add to that those who fall for the Windows-centric trappings that they feel are a ‘good thing’) makes it remarkably difficult to build things in a standards-only way. I HAVE to, every day, work with hacks and workarounds for shit to look right in IE, and only because (as a believer that things should look right for everybody, not just those who are smart enough to download Firefox / etc) there are so many IE users. If every developer ONLY coded to standards, perhaps Microsoft would do something, however, it’s a chicken / egg issue.

    Regarding the administration, I echo your statement, completely. 🙂

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  3. Snooks Avatar
    Snooks

    IE: Well, sure. Organizing geeks is like herding cats. But ideally, I think it would work.

    Administration: I just added the 1001st sun to my hate.

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