Best. Comment. Ever.
Today my site got the absolute best comment I’ve read in a while from someone known as “Bitchy Designer”.
Very cute little message at the top of your site about how my browser sucks….yes…I’m surfing right now in IE when I just happened to stumble across your site. I’m usually in FireFox. I know IE has flaws, but as a web professional I have to use and design for ALL browsers because I can’t depend on all my customers/audience (WHO PAY MY BILLS) to be as enlightened and incredibly web savvy as you….you arrogant little wanker. I’m so sick of web designer’s sites and their bitching and whining about how terrible this browser or that browser is. Do you ever hear a magazine design bitch about how terrible certain types of paper are?Maybe if you were a true web design professional you would be able to work within the current constraints of the medium and design a web site that is truly accessible to the widest array of users possible (especially those who use the most popular browser on the internet at the time of this writing).Grow up.
I understand that when designing/redesigning a site you have to cater to the most popular browser of that very site. Firefox is the number one browser used on this site, followed closely by Safari. The message that displays at the top of my site for IE users is to bring to their attention that their browser is insecure, out of date, and will not display this site, and many like it properly. I do thank you for being so enlightening. I shall now strive to as you say “grow up”. Poopyhead!
Best rebuttal ever!
Ha! I feel like doing the same on my site. Love this.
Haha, I just implemented the same warning message on my blog.
Let’s see if I will get this kind of comment in the future.
What I find amusing is the site that the attention banner links to, BrowseHappy.com. I’ve visited that site and in its attempt to prove IE is out of date it cites articles that are all 18 months stale and pre-date many IE updates. Seems that if you are going to pistol-whip someone for being out of date you should find some more timely content to link to.
Jason: You are right browsehappy.com does link to older articles. I used the link to browsehappy.com because on that site it includes links to Opera, Safari, and Firefox. Perhaps I should have simply linked to something like this.
I understand the issue, but you still should design in a way so most people se the site properly. Would you do this to your client?
Instead of checking the browser to say if it sucks or not, check it to display the correct version of your site for people using differnet browsers to see. Simple?
And, Internet Explorer sucks. One thing to do, is check, and if they are not using Firefox [or some other browser,] recommend it to them.
For a ‘professional’ to call you an arrogant little wanker, I don’t think they are that professional..
I’m so sick of web designer’s sites and their bitching and whining about how terrible this browser or that browser is.
Hmm.. who’s bitching and whining here?
kazi: I agree with you… you should design in a way so most people see the site properly. Firefox is the number one browser used on this site, followed closely by Safari.
Screw the haters. IE does suck and should be banned!!!
This is what really caught my attention:
ROTFL!
haha, that IS the best comment ever, I laughed so hard.
Heh nice Javascript Preview for the comment system too
Guess what. If you did a little reading, you would have discovered that Firefox is now the LEAST SECURE browser. The more popular a browser becomes, the more it is targeted, the less secure it is. Don’t take my word for it. Read my post at Ryze- here, and follow through to the source report from Symantec.
AndyE: I’ve read the article you mentioned about Firefox, and I also agree with you 100%.
Which in turn does make IE very insecure. While Firefox may be insecure, it simply isn’t taken advantage of like IE. Anyways, I modified the site to display just peachy in IE, and removed the anti-IE banner.
If folks were smart they’d just use Safari.
Second. Best. Comment. Ever.
As a web developer myself, I’m going to call you out on this one Mrs. Bitchy. You’re way off base. This is HIS site. Not your site. You don’t have to be here. You don’t like being called on using a shitty browser? Don’t Use it.
Your analogy is terrible as well. Seriously lady… Paper?
Furthermore, as a web developer myself. I value my time, and I know Christopher does as well. Time is money, and my time is damn valuable. That said, the LAST place we want to have to put up with IE is on our own damn blogs. It’s not our fault IE is the 3-legged dog of browsers.
To Chris
You’re a better man than I. I don’t even display my main blog to IE users. I display them a message regarding the W3C and redirect them to getfirefox a few moments later.
V.funny nice to see that they spent all that time writing the comment in so much detail and vigar!
I totally agree with you - what browser you design for should solely depend on your demographic. Why bother wasting time designing for IE if only 5% of your visitors use it.
With most major sites roughly 5% of visitors are using some prehistoric version of Netscape or IE yet very rarely are sites designed to consider that 5%.
Ive been designing and coding for 8 years and back in 2002 I stopped coding for browsers that 5 - 10% of visitors use - there is just no point.
I’ve worked on quite a few major well known e-commerce sites and the basic mentality was that if someone was in that 5-10% (i.e. using a truly outdated/crap browser) there are very unlikely to buy online in the first place.