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The Coder’s Struggle
When you code or develop a website: it is a struggle. It’s a struggle between how you develop it and how a browser will see it. One browser may see it perfectly; while another sees it messy and disorderly.
Today, I will share the struggle fellow coders face in the form of a poem. I personified coding as a female trying to please everyone.
When she walks out the door
she is different
than walking in the door.When she walks out the door,
she is:
Flawless,
Orderly,
and in Uniform.
We are friends,
best friends.
We work together.“Why the change
of clothes?” I say.When she walks in the door,
she wears
ripped jeans and a torn shirt.
Flawed,
Disorderly,
and Unkept.
She hates me,
and I hate her.“I’m trying to fit in,” she responds,
with attitude.
She is trying to adapt,
to please everyone -
except me.
She does it on purpose:
to piss me off.I want Order,
Uniform,
and Perfection;
but she won’t let me,
and she gets worse.“Put your uniform back on!” I say
angered.Frustration stems
and impatience grows.
I try every fix
in the book:
they don’t work.I try one
last
fix:
I validate her.
“You are not an Explorer,
you are a fox.
You are not buggy,
you are flawless.
In the ripped jeans
and a torn shirt: you have
no
use.She cries,
and realizes:
I was right.
She cooperates,
and puts her uniform back on.
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It took me a while to get used to the idea, much like in Sociology, that we are the product of dynamic circumstance. I am not to Blame! Internet Explorer, I fault you for every problem in my life. I feel much better now.
Seriously though, I always found it amusing that the browser standards implemented ran contrary to those used by the market leader. Apart from its quirks and backwards rendering engine, Internet Explorer is a pretty solid browser. I should know, I was developing Apps before Ajax, while you were still in diapers.. well, maybe training bras. On top of that, I develop my own JS framework so I have reason to bitch everyday. I’m not an IE advocate or street crier but without it, my complacent code would never be optimized.
The Photoshop generation, in my opinion cries to often and too quickly. You have it good, really good, powerful software and ridiculous encapsulations, only 3 or 4 browsers to develop for and still the bellyaching, promises of boycott.. I chuckle, then lol,I smile but really I’m appalled. Developer, I doubt, those are the guys creating browsers for scripts to run on, layers for your actions to land on, engines to save you time. We’re just pointing and clicking, feeling overly miserable, and just a little bit sticky. Because anyway you cut it, IE is here to stay. Nice poem, by the way.
@Anthony: I agree with the points you make, but IE does have a lot of faults and it bothers coders. It bothers me when I have to make a CSS style sheet just for IE and it bothers me when I have to use little CSS hacks for other browsers. All browsers do render it different, but the more experienced you become, the less bugs you will come across.
I do agree, IE is a solid browser and it is very popular. Nonetheless, the pains and woes it brings coders leave them no choice but to pick another browser. IE is here to stay because of its popularity and I believe it should. It helps coders learn better semantics and it is very easy to use for those who don’t code websites.
Thank you for your contribution, you have opened my mind to give IE a little more credit.
I use firefox and never think of returning back to IE
In fact, I developped an application javascript, and I recognized that it runs faster in IE thought I use Firefox. IE is not dead
Firefox is far superior to IE, especially for developers. I think Chrome is quite nice too for general surfing, Its quite fast. I use firefox specifically for development so the many addons that are loaded slow down the experience.