Speckled Green

Internet Explorer is still the annoying, non-standards-compliant and oddly rendering web browser it always has been. Yeah, sure, each incarnation of it slowly gets slightly better. They still suck. Look at my blog for example. It works perfectly fine on the Webkit, Gecko and Khtml engines (Apple Safari & Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, other-types-I-can’t-be-bothered-remembering-at-this-time respectively) and looks ok. The moment it ran through Trident 7 or 8 (Internet Explorer 7 or 8 respectively), it just died. Short of killing Internet Explorer, I’ve taken to starting to write an entirely separate style sheet for IE. No, that doesn’t mean it’s special, it means it needs special attention because it cannot be normal. Like the people with disabilities I guess. It is normal except for it’s disability to work like everyone else.

And so that I’ll stop ranting about that, I’ll just say I’m shocked that at around 1am this morning, some bot spammed my website, with 81 comments. 1 a minute. How odd. Complete waste of time really, because the spam filter I use is quite good.