[Sussex] OFF-TOPIC a quick rant

[Nic Ferrier]

"Mark Harrison (Groups)" <mph at ascentium.co.uk> writes:

> <p style="massive rant" sarcasmlevel="100%">
>
> Why can't the brain-dead morons who wrote Internet Explorer actually
> read some of the documentation about Cascading Style Sheet alignments.
> No, you fools, having a CSS column with content one pixel wider than the
> space you think is available does NOT mean you render the thing a
> screen's depth lower, it means that you allow overlap the way the
> sodding standard says. Here's an idea, why don't you just bundle Firefox
> with Windows, and make everyone's life better.
>
> </p>
>
> <p style="back to normal">
>
> Sorry about that, folks. I've been attempting to develop some non-ugly
> CSS that actually works on IE, because this is what the target user base
> actually has installed.
>
> </p>

With all (http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=2153) the
security problems with IE these days it should be fairly trivial to
write a page to send some code to auto-download firefox on a user's
machine and erase all trace of IE.

If it was just done and there was no message maybe people wouldn't
notice. Or they'd assume it was ok. Like the legions of other rubbish
they get from using Explorer.

Ahhh... that's when they'd notice of course:

  IE Luser: Hey! I'm not getting loads of pop-ups and viruses
            anymore... something must be wrong...



Nic