Let’s lock Bill Gates in a room…

by Sapphire (February 9, 2005)

…and give him three days to design a version of Internet Explorer that reads CSS 80% as well as every other browser on earth. And yes, I’m including the so-called “browser” program your neighbor’s precocious nine-year-old wrote the other day. Even that one.

Here’s the deal, folks. I just had a look ’round all the big techie and web development sites, and I learned one thing: they’re all still using tables. You have to. The other option is to design a separate version of your site for IE. All because IE is so buggy.

But maybe I’m wrong to blame Mr. Gates. Maybe I should be irritated with the vast majority of computer users who don’t even comprehend that the internet isn’t part of their computer and think IE is the only way to see the internet (I’m not kidding you). Maybe I should be ticked at all these people who are afraid to use their credit cards online, yet don’t even know enough about computers to realize the role IE plays in hacker insecurity - and the role dumping it for another browser plays in becoming far more secure, thank you very much.

If people would bother to learn a little about the stuff they use instead of turning it on and expecting it to tell them what to do, we’d still have toll-free tech support (which was discontinued by one company after another because it’s just not good business sense to have a 1-800 “Yeah, how do I turn the thing on?” line). If people knew this little about driving before getting behind the wheel of a car… well, actually that might explain some of the driving I see. Today, class, we’ll be discussing the role of green lights in traffic. You’ll want to take notes.

A couple of years ago, TheOnion predicted that, at the rate intelligent people breed compared to fools, within 12 years, the whole planet will be a handful of educated people “drowning in a sea of mouth-breathers”. I’m feeling it now.

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