Comments on: I truly hate you IE!

By: Dev

Dev — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Absolutely right !
IE = Infinitive Errors

Apart from CSS rendering problems, there are MANY javascript problems as well.

By: Barney

Barney — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

When you say “at the top”, what do you mean? If it’s before the !DOCTYPE, it’ll make IE go to quirks mode instead of standards mode.

By: Steve 'Cutter' Blades

Steve 'Cutter' Blades — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

According to the standards, nothing should come before the DOCTYPE declaration and opening html tag, not even a comment. This is one of those extremely rare and very off the wall situations where IE did it right, and everyone else was outta wack.

By: James

James — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The comment at the beginning of the document made IE go into quirks mode, which was probably why it was not rendering the same as the other browsers.

…ala wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode)
“Quirks mode in any version of IE will also be triggered if anything but whitespace precedes the DOCTYPE. For example, if a hypertext document contains a comment or any tag before the DOCTYPE, IE will use quirks mode”

PS – agreed. IE is totally hate-able.

By: subhero

subhero — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I for one love IE. Simply for the everyday reality checks it presents to the misguided utopians.
BTW: The “Post comment” button on this site is not displayed in IE7, locking out a vast amount of the open web. Don’t complain, work harder.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Post Comment button really doesn’t show in IE, another great reason to dislike it.

By: Marcos Placona

Marcos Placona — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

@Barney, @James: I really didn’t think about quirks mode, and honestly i thought it was a thing from the past. Didn’t think it was still present on IE8

@subhero: You’re probably the only one to like IE, people seem to complain more and more at every release.

@subhero & @ Billy: I’ll check what’s going on. i have IE8 and it works fine. I’ll have to wait till I get home to work on a fix for it. Can you guys give me more details about how it happens, and if it throws any error.