[dmd-beta] Well, I keep trying to do the release

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:03:41 -0700
Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 
> On 8/2/2012 8:56 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > On Aug 2, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> >
> >> I sent them an email. Odds are, they'll tell me to use another
> >> browser. I'm using the latest IE, but evidently nobody who
> >> develops web apps bothers with IE.
> > Only when I get complaints :)  Seriously, though, IE is the *worst*
> > browser to develop for, at least for me.  My CSS book has
> > practically a whole chapter on how to deal with IE oddities.
> >
> 
> 
> Harrumph. It is turning out to be a "github doesn't work with IE"
> thing. It worked with mozilla running from Linux. This is the second
> time github has failed with IE, obviously they never test it.

I'm not surprised. GitHub is one of those asinine organizations that
*expects* everybody to access the web the way *GitHub* want their users
to access it, and it *must* be with the
"latest-and-(*cough*)-greatest" browser, ie whatever browsers that
*GitHub* determines to be "worthy", and to hell with anyone else. One
of the reasons I've come to hate GitHub.

As far as IE troubles - I've done plenty of cross-browser stuff myself,
including supporting IE as far back as *7*, and frankly if you
have a bunch of special IE workarounds in either your HTML/CSS or
anywhere else then *you're doing something wrong* in the first place.
Either you're trying to be pixel-perfect (in a medium that's
*specifically designed* to look different according to the *client*
side) or you're just plain overengineering your HTML/CSS (*very*
common), or doing something stupid like pretending CSS is actually
suitable for layouts (it's *NOT*
- tables OTOH actually *WORK* for layouts, contrary to the hysterical
religious FUD against them), etc.