Browser Blues:
Dave Shea laments at the prospect of ‘IE being the new NN4’. I’ve been noticing that a great deal too, well with IE5 anyhow. All too often while working with someone else’s computer, I’ll load up a site, only to have it then dawn on me that I’m suddenly back in Kansas — overcome by the urge to beat my head against the desk until it all just goes away.
Short of a miracle, and every non-compliant/outmoded browser version on the planet turning into chocolate fudge though, our fate is sealed:
“Everytime I proclaim that NN4 is dead a group of NN4 clerics assemble to inform me that 4 Tibetan monks will no longer be able to surf the web freely. Further, Tunisian camel herders will no longer be able to order supplies. Then there’s Bill. Apparently Bill is a wealthy professional, loves to order products over the web and absolutely refuses to surf with any browser other than NN4. What’s worse is that there are literally millions of Bills and while all those NN4 users might make up less than 1% of the surfing population apparently they are responsible for 25% of the purchases made on the web. or some such nonsense…” [via roulston.org]
