IE Annoyances

There are hundreds of reasons not to use IE (Internet Explorer), but the common folk still seem to use it en masse, so I am forced to deal with its bugs when developing web pages.

A couple that I ran into today in IE 6:

1. No support for onload handler on script tag (makes dynamically loading scripts a pain).
2. No support for transparency or opacity in PNG files. I have a beautiful logo that looks great in all browsers except IE. IE just shows a gray background where it is supposed to be clear.

Haven’t gotten my hands directly on an IE 7 machine to test out, but by all indications, these problems still exist in IE7.

If you are still using IE, I beg you to switch to something else – anything else (e.g. Firefox, Safari (yes it is available for windows now), Opera, Google Chrome (Google’s new shiny browser). Just stop using IE and make the world a better place.

When the statistics show that less than 2% of the users are using IE, I can stop wasting my time on workarounds for it and focus on developing.

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