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You seem to be a wannabe graph­ic de­sign­er

Thurs­day 26 March 2009 01:58

Since it came up, again, al­low me to re­tort. This isn't aimed at mr.mad­sen, who had the balls to quit his job to pur­sue artis­tic in­tegri­ty and is there­fore an ex­am­ple for all wannabe mr.mad­sens.

The real is­sue is sites like stopie6.org, stopie6.com and reg­u­lar whin­ing about IE6 on LinkedIn An­swers. While those sites pre­tend to be help­ing IE6 users to a bet­ter place, for a web de­vel­op­er it's ob­vi­ous the ben­e­fits for the user to up­date it's brows­er are neg­li­gi­ble com­pared to the ben­e­fits for the not so skilled de­vel­op­er to make the user up­date and drop IE6 sup­port. But those not so skilled de­vel­op­ers live in their own bl­o­gos­phere and to­tal­ly lack the skills to con­vince the reg­u­lar peo­ple that are the IE6 users to change their brows­er. Their ar­gu­men­ta­tion is more like a con­test for peo­ple who like to piss off, the in their view, Un­ter­men­schen that work for some cor­po­rate com­pa­ny that is not us­ing the lat­est mod­els MacBook, and that doesn't help. I'm not say­ing this post helps, main­ly be­cause you'd need the IP ad­dress­es of all wannabe graph­ic de­sign­ers whin­ing about IE6 to have it only tar­get the right au­di­ence of a site, but at least I don't go reg­is­ter­ing a do­main name for it to pre­tend it mat­ters:

YOU SEEM TO BE A
WANNABE GRAPHIC DESIGNER.
GET FUCKED.

SO YOU'RE STUCK IN A JOB WHERE YOU THOUGHT THEY WERE INTERESTED IN YOUR
DESIGN SKILLS, BUT NOW YOU'VE FOUND OUT THAT WAS JUST BAIT TO GET YOU CODING
WEB PAGES. AND BEING A N00B THAT WASN'T AROUND TO LEARN TO SUPPORT IE6 WHEN
IT WAS RELEASED, YOU REALLY SUCK AT CODING WEB PAGES, AND YOU HATE THAT.

THEN YOU SELFISHLY MAKE IE6 THE SCAPEGOAT. FOR NOT BEING STANDARDS COMPLIANT,
WHILE YOU'VE NEVER CODED A VALID HTML DOCUMENT ANYWAY. FOR JUST BEING OLD,
SHOWING HOW IMMATURE YOU ARE. FOR LACKING FEATURES IT'S USERS DON'T NEED. FOR
MAKING YOUR LIFE A HELL.

I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOUR LIFE IS A HELL.

The best thing is of course, you can just add "be­cause mine is too. I use IE6" to make it work for the op­po­site point.

And if you're won­der­ing why can't I read this web page in IE6, or even IE8? IE doesn't prop­er­ly sup­port XHTML, and putting any ef­fort in just stop­ping IE6 is just a missed op­por­tu­ni­ty to stop IE al­to­geth­er.

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