One man’s voice

Making progress

Posted on December 12th, 2007 in CSS, Geek Stuff, General, Web Development

Man, am I stoked. I am finally through getting the first run of the markup and CSS for my company’s new public web site.

This has been one heck of a learning curve for me. Seriously, it took me almost a week to get back into coding markup and CSS, making it valid, making it efficient, making it clean and making it understandable. To that end, I think any web developer that is building anything for the web right now should include the following message in their CSS documents that are specific to Internet Explorer:

/**
 * Everybody knows that with the exception of Internet Explorer 5 Internet
 * Explorer 6 is quite possibly the worst piece of software ever created.
 *
 * We get this. But not everyone utilizes this knowledge and in effect,
 * these people are left out of a great browsing experience because their
 * browser, unbeknownst to them, is a piece of garbage.
 *
 * For those that care about a user experience, we attempt to fix the garbage
 * effects of that trash that is the Internet Explorer browser. This stylesheet
 * as that attempt.
 *
 * While more and more developers are finding ways to correct IE's terrible
 * handling of compliant markup and seemingly carefree violations of standards,
 * it is the belief of most developers that a user has the right to choose their
 * software. In that vein, may we recommend a few browsers that do the right
 * when handling your user experience?
 *
 * Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
 * Opera - http://www.opera.com/download/
 * Safari - http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
 *
 * All of these are free, all of them compliant, all of them better than IE.
 *
 * Enjoy your user experience.
 *
 * - Your web developer
 */