Re: Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

["Alfredo Delgado" <adelgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ha! Good thing because those poor souls will just think there's something
wrong with the developer. :)

The lesson that you shouldn't sh*t where you eat came home most vividly when
I worked for a web hosting company in '99. A user called me to say that our
servers were broken. When I inquired on how he'd arrived at that conclusion
he let me know that he could see his page in IE but his customers using
Netscape would just get a blank page. Yes, he named the browsers involved
without a hint of irony. When I looked at his source code I noticed it had
about as much in common with HTML as finger painting does with the Mona
Lisa.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > From: Alfredo Delgado
> > You don't have to have an axe to grind to speak honestly about IE's
> > problems and the reasons for them.
>
> You're making me feel better, so I'll admit to a devilish thought that
> crossed my mind, but that's about as far as I'll go.
>
> When I was writing the component to build tables dynamically I noticed that
> IE performed about 5 times slower than FF.  Then later discovered, quite
> inadvertently, that if you make the table invisible while you're loading it,
> it makes the IE performance more comparable to FF.
>
> I asked myself, what if I don't implement the IE performance trick?  Maybe
> it would motivate users to switch?  Then I considered the poor souls who may
> be lower down on the food chain, some of whom may not have a choice about
> which browser they use.  They still need a productive interface.
>
> Nathan.
>
>
>
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