Tag Archive: Code


Browser Playhouse: IE6 Breaks All Our Toys!

Filed Under: Comedy, Web Development by DrupalCouch — 2 Comments
June 19, 2009

This is probably the funniest comic detailing the wretchedness of IE6 I’ve ever seen. As you know IE6 is the bane of every web designer and developer. Some people have just flat out stopped supporting it. And, it’s about time they did too. It’s 8 years old!! As a web community we need to start supporting HTML 5 and cSS 3 and look towards the future instead of supporting the past. If you’re still using IE6 at home you have no excuse. Please upgrade to IE8 or at least IE7.

Browser Playhouse

Flickr Photo Download: IE6 denial message for Momentile.com.

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Google Releases Page Speed (They’re on a roll this week.)

Filed Under: Social Networking by DrupalCouch — 1 Comment
June 5, 2009

If you’re ever looking to optimize your page load times check out Google Page Speed. According to Google’s blog they’ve been using this for a while now and just recently decided to release it to the public.

Smaller web sites probably don’t have to worry as much about page load speed, especially low traffic sites. But if you’re running a high traffic site, page speed is extremely important. Sure you might only have 40kB on a page but if you get over a 1000 people a day that quickly becomes 40mB. You’d be hard pressed to find pages that are only 40kB these days anyways.

With that said, install the add on and have fun optimizing your web pages!

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Give Up and Use Tables (I think not.)

Filed Under: Web Development by DrupalCouch — Leave a comment
November 12, 2008

I just saw this site on reddit http://giveupandusetables.com/ and think it’s the most ridiculous thing. Do people not understand that building sites in tables causes huge problems for screen readers and semantic markup? It also hurts your site’s SEO.

Markup should always remain seperate from the style of a site. Tables are finicky and are a pain to work with. With the advent of CSS3 the layout issues you currently have will be no more. Actually, when is that coming out? I need to figure that out. I guess it won’t really matter because until IE6 is gone we’ll still be stuck with the older languages. Curse you microsoft, and curse everyone who still uses that EIGHT year old browser. Take a look here: http://iedeathmarch.org/

With that said. Screw IE6 and don’t ever build a site using tables. Tables are for tabular data and charts, that’s it!!

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