Comments on: Too cool for your visitors?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:41:15 +0000

Why I understand the Too Cool for IE thing, yes a professional site should cater to IE 5 – 6 Win. IE 5 Mac I say fork it. MS even dropped support on that one. About time too. But I think in some ways it is a good thing to do. Show IE users that they can;t even use a simple #foo:hover or :focus without a hack. Maybe it will show some the light.

By: omar

omar — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:26:28 +0000

I’ve seen this “too cool for ie” logo on a site or two and to be honest I just assumed that only the fixed logo itself was “too cool”. I didn’t realise that the whole site was coded without consideration for IE. I would have to ask though, what concern of anyone’s is it if some people feel to exclude IE? I think the main issue is that people have problems with the word cool and so are reacting to that more than anything else. It started on a blog, someone’s personal site. In what way are they morally obligated to cater for IE on THEIR OWN PERSONAL SITE?

By: PThree.org » Too Cool For IE

PThree.org » Too Cool For IE — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:40:37 +0000

[...] There seems to have been a lot of buzz surrounding the “Too Cool For IE” images that are popping up all over the place. Generally, the acceptance has not been positive, but rather, quite negative. And yet we are seeing them everywhere, more and more. One particular post that I stumbled upon that just made me laugh was at Pink Thinker. Let me give you the highlights: [...]

By: B. Scheuert

B. Scheuert — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:31:59 +0000

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By: B. Scheuert

B. Scheuert — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:00:18 +0000

Nice Article, it's another german site but see it self and take a look to this site, Zu blöd für CSS. Cheers.

By: ditt0

ditt0 — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:33:33 +0000

hifiDesign sorry, but you are missing the point here; it’s not a debate about IE, but about the webdesigners’ attitude. I never said that IE is good or bad. What I’m trying to state here is that the user comes first.I’m not on any side of the fence. Why do we have to be on one side of the fence or the other? Why can’t we take a peak from both sides from time to time, just to check if we’re not missing something?
And “do us a favour” – who is “us”?
If you put it that way, I make my own job harder. But it so happens that I love my job and I love the coding.

By: hifiDesign

hifiDesign — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:26:53 +0000

Your rant/rationale misses the mark in so many ways. Of course you’d be an idiot to stick that badge on your professional site. Any designer worth their salt knows that. Kudos for pointing out the obvious.

And it’s not about a secure browser, or who’s is better. It’s about calling a known, faulty piece of software on the carpet – software that makes our jobs harder. So before you waste another hour of your life (and shame on me for wasting me time reading it), do us a favor and remember that designers who sit on your side of the fence (the side that say IE is OK because people are still using it) – you make our jobs harder by perpetuating IE’s stupidity by catering to it.

Have a nice one!

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:53:43 +0000

Great post. Hacking IE is certainly a pain, but it’s part of the job.