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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by mixu on Monday March 21, 2011 @06:10AM (#2349076)
Totally illegible font color, and selecting the text does not help since the highlight color is also very light. Can't read anything except the graph and headings.
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by janv on Monday March 21, 2011 @06:59AM (#2349168)
You view the site in IE, don't you?
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by davidhollander on Monday March 21, 2011 @07:41AM (#2349259)
The 3 columns are #ababab on #ffffff in Chrome, in other words a 33% difference in brightness. For primary body text of regular or thin width, a lot of readers are uncomfortable below 50%.
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by josefrichter on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:10PM (#2350580)
get a decent display :-) ok, will give it more contrast. sorry and thanks.
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by davidhollander on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @02:16AM (#2353342)
np, it's visible on my display just trying to be helpful based on past experience with others and seeing the initial comment. Part of what might actually be happening is that after seeing the header for each of the 3 columns, the eye sight jumps to the links at the bottom of the columns because it is higher contrast than the body text, and then the visual focus can't help but leaking further down into the "Oh ma" footer which also has higher contrast than the column body text, and then for each column the reader has to make a more concentrated effort to go back and focus on what that important content said. Whereas on the IE6 site, the body text of each column is actually higher contrast than its header and link footer rather than lower. So I think they got that annoying feeling you get when you have to reread a page of a book.
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by obtino on Monday March 21, 2011 @05:57AM (#2349049)
Why bother counting when you're going to try to force it on existing IE users anyway?
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by Animus7 on Monday March 21, 2011 @05:39AM (#2349019)
Cute, but I'd rather my users upgrade to IE9 if it means they'll stop using the uglier ones before it.
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by ch0wn on Monday March 21, 2011 @05:46AM (#2349033)
The update requires direct user action (including a reboot) anyways, so I'd rather encourage them to upgrade to FF 4, Chrome or Opera.
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by sudhirj on Monday March 21, 2011 @09:14AM (#2349492)
That is actually what the letter to users does- http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by sudhirj on Monday March 21, 2011 @09:15AM (#2349495)
Could you apply Creative Commons the letter you wrote at http://www.theie9countdown.com/ie-users-info? I'm sure there are more than a few people out there who'd like to use it.
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by josefrichter on Monday March 21, 2011 @01:08PM (#2350569)
feel free to reuse the texts in any way you want. backlink would be nice, though not necessary.
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by 37prime on Monday March 21, 2011 @06:24AM (#2349104)
Someone made something like this a few weeks back based on the IE6 Countdown. Screen grab: http://37prime.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/iecountdo...
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Re:The site Microsoft forgot: IE9 countdown by Yoric on Monday March 21, 2011 @06:03AM (#2349062)
Nice one. Now, how do we manage to make every single webpage IE Chrome frame compatible?
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