(responded offlist; this post is pretty much dead and no need to fill up everyone's inbox)
On 10/1/06, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John C. Bland II wrote: > > Duh, the rendering engine does not render everything properly and the > > community has found the necessary hacks to work around them. Did you > think I > > was talking about 5 years ago or now? > > You were talking about a specific phone call I made in the past. If you > don't know when that call was exactly, shouldn't you ask before jumping the > gun? > > > > You even said most hacks are known > > now. Of course I'm talking about now. I don't know of a "bug" or feature > > that a hack hasn't been discovered. > > And how do you know about them? You know about them because somebody ran > into them and reported them. Because that is what responsible developers do, > they report bugs when they encounter them. And I have on occasion used the > phone for that because other means of reporting issues to MS give the same > response as a black hole. > > > > Yes, IE 6 bites big time. MSFT has admitted it and pretty much every > > developer that has ever worked with JS or CSS knows this. I never said > it > > doesn't have bugs but to put a blanket statement of "something not > rendering > > properly is a bug" is a little much. > > But that is not what I wrote. I wrote: "where for instance a bug in IE > results in incorrect rendering" which defines a causal relation between the > rendering problem and a bug. > > I am not the one making blanket statements, I am just relating my > experiences. > > > > With every link you provided, isn't there a way around it? > > So as long as there is a way around it, it isn't a bug? I think we should > agree to disagree on that. > > > > Now that that is cleared up, let's go back to the question I asked. And I > will even reformulate the question because I would really like to know if MS > has some decent support to offer for the little guy (and indeed, if the > support is decent, $245 is pocket change). So: > > If I encounter a problem in IE where a bug causes incorrect rendering to > the point of an application being unuseable, can I just call MS and get a > patch for IE? Or can I even get somebody to admit that it is a problem in IE > and not in my code? > > Jochem > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:254922 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
