simonb.com: blog > articles from Tuesday, 9 May 2006

Q: What’s the only web browser that my Internet banking supports?
A: IE 6

Q: What’s the most insecure browser you can use?
A: IE 6

Oh, dear…

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Bill Gates told the IE team “We have to build something for the WWW” The IE team built the Worlds Worst Webrowser…

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SGI has filed for chapter 11 Not unexpected. Surprising it took so long to take some action… Back in the days when I could get my hands on a SGI machine they were a joy to program. IRIX is a great OS - it was one of the few that actually met the POSIX specs for threads. Great APIs. I wish they would just sell or give away IRIX for the PC x86 platform. Lots of people with fond memories of SGI workstations from the past would glady install IRIX in favor of Linux I think. 

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What’s the different between this

and this

The answer is: nothing unless you are IE. The World’s Worst Webrowser treats them differently, adding unwanted vertical space in the case where there are spaces between and inside the tr and td elements and their contents - newlines are just as bad btw. Grrr, debug hell.

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