7/07/2008
Since starting this (these) blogs I’ve had a minimalist interim theme while getting around to designing my own. Minimalism be gone! (I do suffer from hypomania after all.) Finally I got this theme release ready. It’s a work in progress of course, but good enough for now.
There’s a few validation errors. One from an empty menu of pages being generated that I’m keeping around for whenever I want to write some, and some stuff from posts which I’ll blame on WordPress. For the most part though, it’s all kosher XHTML/CSS.
I had a real hard time getting started on this template. I guess maintaining both design skills and code skills is kind of beyond me. As such I’ll happily admit that the swirly stuff in the header is a purchased stock illustration that I’ve modified and bent to my purposes. Once I had that as a starting point the rest of the design happened pretty quickly.
For now IE6 is not supported. Not sure if it ever will be. I might just redirect those unfortunate to the old bare bones template rather than break my balls trying to hack my code into something that little monstrosity is able to render. If anyone knows a good WP-Plugin that takes care of that for me; Give a shout.
So anyway. Just a FYI. Carry on.
26/03/2008
Seeing this pop up around the webboblag lately I find that the old fire in my belly isn't quite the fiery inferno one might have expected. Don't get me wrong! If IE6 was abolished, not only would it be a burden of my shoulders; It would save the company I work for shit loads of money, and my girlfriend would love me more.
No, the reason my battle roar might come off as a feeble “meh” this´time around is that I've seen, promoted and participated in this endeavour several times over the last few years. From “Browse Happy“, to “Explorer Destroyer” and “Kill Bill's Browser” (both of which seem to be taken down lately) and several others.
All of the above set out with the same goal; to rid the web of its ugliest and smelliest bastard child. None of them really had the impact one might have hoped for.
The reason for this is that… Hey guys; We're preaching to the choir. The people that even gives a nanosmidgen about what browser they use have already changed it. Furthermore, the places you'd be able to actually put this banner would largely be the kind of sites visited by the aforementioned collective of choral performers. I know most of my clients would give me some odd looks if I suggested we'd smack that thing in there.
In the end this is all about numbers. When clients feel that paying web professionals extra money to make a site render properly in IE6 outweighs the benefits, they'll stop paying and we'll stop doing. One key battle here is the corporate world. If we made, let's say may 10th the international “Talk to your IT-department about FireFox”-day, I'd say we've come a bit further on the quest for no more pain, please.
In closing; I applaud the effort, and I wish nothing more than to be proven wrong. This one time. I usually don't care for it.