Re:Code Standards & Front-end Development Best Practices
by bauderjoshua on Thursday March 17, 2011 @08:40AM
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Do you not worry about viewers that still use IE?
Re:Code Standards & Front-end Development Best Practices
by oewolf on Thursday March 17, 2011 @10:40AM
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He just implied he doesn't. Not that his pages doesn't render, he just don't care to polish them for IE.
Re:Code Standards & Front-end Development Best Practices
by Stormbringer on Thursday March 17, 2011 @06:49PM
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Correct.
Take border-radius for instance. It is 'fluff'. It makes no functional difference to the page whether it is there or not.
Now, for Moz and Webkit, I get nice looking rounded corners for negligible effort. In order to duplicate that look on IE there are any number of ways to do it, but all of them involve enormously much more effort, and are much more fragile (anything where you need pixel perfect positioning is fragile and easily broken by different browser versions).
Additionally, the longer WE support IE's blatant disregard of standards, the less incentive they have to adhere to those standards.
Of course my pages still render on IE, but I don't do any quirks mode stuff, that just causes too much pain.
Oh, well, that's not strictly true, since I have to have two different things in the CSS for rounded corners (webkit vs mozilla), but apart from that I try to keep quirks to a minimum, and IE can go die in a fire for all I care.