Nick Sabalausky wrote: > I know IE gets flamed for not > following the standards, and perhaps rightly so, but sometimes the > IE-classic-way just makes the standards-way look like shit.
Yup. I always put some slightly inflammatory line in my signature over there (and my avatar is usually ironic in some way). I think the whole web standards thing is a pile of nonsense. Well, it's good to have, but the attitude behind them, especially toward IE, is just ridiculous. Virtually everything "web 2.0" is built on was invented by IE - hence the signature line. There's some new standards fixing the old standard... by making it act like old IE. (box-sizing in CSS is the big one.) But, noooo, IE is evil. If there's something IE started that they don't like, it's OH NOES PROPRIETARY EVILNESS... but if Google does the same thing, it's STILL IE's fault for not instantly cloning Google's proprietary crap! Unbelievable. And, that brings me to something else. I hate the way the browsers are so focused on poorly running DOOM in Javascript, but they all ignore basic usability issues. Take one that got me recently: file uploads don't give feedback. How hard would it be for the browser to put in some kind of progress bar over the form or something instead of just hanging for a few minutes? But noooo, we need WebGL. Oh, I could rant about this all day, better not get too far off topic again! > If you ask me, SQL is the COBOL/VB of the DB world, except it > actually stuck. I don't know, it seems OK enough for the database, though it has issues I hate (hence my recent database.d module). But reinventing it is so weird. Facebook did it too, but they at least had the good sense of ditching their FQL for the most part in favor of the new graph api, which is far more traditional in form.... and far easier to use.
