Microsoft, You Suck

Trying out some new AJAXy stuff here on my blog.

Works perfectly in Firefox.
Works perfectly in Opera.
Works perfectly in Safari.
Burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp in IE7.

It's not a simple matter of the page being misformatted.  IE bleeps, throws up an error telling you the server can't be reached, blanks out what it's shown of the page so far, and locks up.

Now I'll admit that I'm running the latest versions of Firefox, Opera and Safari, and my IE7 is a bit out of date.  But there's a damn good reason for that.  Firefox, Opera and Safari are quick and painless to update.  To update IE7, I first had to spend 15 minutes updating the updater.  Now I'm waiting for 287MB of patches to install.  And given what Automatic Update has done to me in the past, there's no way in hell I'm going to turn it back on.

If you're using IE, really, get a better browser.  Firefox.  Opera.  Safari.  Seamonkey.  Netscape 3.  Anything.  Think of the web designers.  Won't someone please think of the web designers?

Update: AHA!  Known bug.  No patch.

But the workaround works, which is a lot better than forcing every mee.nu user to update their browser.

Still, everyone but Microsoft gets this right.  Bleh.

Update: Here's a post about the same freakin' problem... From 2003.  Way to go, Team Microsoft.

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