Sep/093
Top 10 Reasons to use Perl
You should use Perl because…
10. Real Perl coders don’t have fohawks.
9. Perl has nothing to do with Ryan Seacrest.
8. Beer improves Perl.
7. It comes with a 20-sided die for all that TIMTOWTDI.
6. It has nothing to do with PHP.
5. Captain Picard writes perl.
4. There is no better place to get Moo seX.
3. It grows on you.
2. IE8 was not written in Perl.
… drum roll …
1. You can write this.
Sep/092
IE8, another screwed up version.
I was really hoping that Internet Explorer version 8 (IE8) would finally be the version of IE where Microsoft stepped up to the plate and produced a fast browser, with few bugs, less Microsoft-only features, and a good and modern UI.
I’m the kind of guy that holds judgment for a very long time, sometimes too long. So it comes with great sadness that I announce that IE8 is not the browser I was hoping for. It is riddled with bugs, the rendering engine crashes on many web sites, and it is SLOW. Its the slowest browser of them all as far as I can tell. It renders many web-2.0′ish sites with teeth-gritting sluggishness. Once rendered, javascript animations tend to be jumpy as well. I’ve found several cases where the event engine is even more screwed up than it was in IE7.
If you’re a web developer and IE8 is causing the same pain for you as it has for me, consider adding this to your HTML*:
* This should be the very first tag after the opening <head> tag.
This will force IE8 to run in IE7 compatibility mode. When in IE7 compatibility mode IE8 will not crash nearly as often and will render your HTML/CSS/JS much more predictably and act more similar to how Chrome and FireFox behave.
I don’t understand why Microsoft keeps doing this. They have all the power in the world to WIN the browser war, but they are just going to keep failing with crap software like this and loose one more market to Google.
Iron Man
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