Internet Explorer sucks. I’ve finished most of the design work on the photoblog, and now I’m testing it out on a variety of browsers. Firefox—check, Opera—check, Safari—check, OmniWeb—check, Internet Explorer—major havoc. ARGH!!
I’ve cleaned up most of the weirdness in IE6 (can’t check IE5 since it seems to be impossible to have both installed at once), but the mouse-over information for images isn’t being set. When a user moves the mouse over a full-size image on the photoblog, it’s supposed to add description information over the image. Every other browser supports the code easily, IE is a massive problem due to well-documented CSS/JavaScript/DOM bugs, some of which have been around for 2-3 years. No software vendor that isn’t a monopoly could stay in the market without even addressing basic feature failures. To make matters worse, the act of testing the pages in Internet Explorer has introduced (or at least exposed) several spyware applications on my computer. Happy, happy, joy, joy—not.
For those of you still running IE, switch to Firefox; more features, faster performance, and less spyware. There’s just no excuse…