Spacing

[Todd McCloud]

Is it just me, or is the line spacing on NS larger? You know, like the spacing from line of text to line of text. Noticed it a few minutes ago.

[Sichuan Pepper]

*gets worried when admin touches the precious* (reports)

Mine as well Todd.

[[violet]]

IT'S NOT JUST YOU

[Todd McCloud]

Seems to be more or less back to where it was from before now. Huh.

[[violet]]

It went from 1.00 to 1.50 and then back to 1.25 when I realized how huge that looked in Internet Explorer.

[Todd McCloud]

And here I thought the NS main skin was changing or something, lol.

[The Republic of Lanos]

I still get that space between new posts and old posts on IE. Doesn't do that for other browsers.

[[violet]]

And here I thought the NS main skin was changing or something, lol.

I don't want you to get SUPER EXCITED or anything but it's a stylesheet update for the new TG system.

[SkyDip]

And here I thought the NS main skin was changing or something, lol.

I don't want you to get SUPER EXCITED or anything but it's a stylesheet update for the new TG system.

*flails*

[A Classless Society]

People still use IE?

[San Leggera]

And here I thought the NS main skin was changing or something, lol.

I don't want you to get SUPER EXCITED or anything but it's a stylesheet update for the new TG system.

*Party popper noise*

[Defensor]

People still use IE?

That's what I was wondering

[Mayane]

People still use IE?

That's what I was wondering

I use it at home, I have used it at home for more then 10 years now.
I don't know why people always whine about IE, it is perfectly fine.

[Dagnia]

I never noticed anything. Did this all happen in the last few days, going from 1.00 to 1.50 and 1.25?

People still use IE?

Meh, it's not too much worse than most of the other browsers. I don't even use a Microsoft OS on my Laptop, so it's not an option for me. However, my university has Windows computers, and when given the choice between Explorer, Chrome and Firefox, I would choose Explorer on those since Firefox could be so slow (until a pretty recent update) and I don't trust a Google browser to not record every web page I visit to know what kind of spam I should get in my mail.

[Defensor]

That's what I was wondering

I use it at home, I have used it at home for more then 10 years now.
I don't know why people always whine about IE, it is perfectly fine.

Yeah, I mean, a 1993 Toyota Camery works just fine too. But wouldn't you rather a 2012 Mazda 6? Or maybe a 2010 Audi A4? How about a new 2013 Jeep Wrangler? Or perhaps a 2011 Dodge Ram? Yeah...that's the comparison...

[[violet]]

I don't know why people always whine about IE, it is perfectly fine.

If you're a web developer, you grow to hate it because your site looks fine in every other browser but requires lots of special attention to work properly in IE. Some things just won't work in IE, so rather than offer up a feature that's broken for some users, you don't offer it at all. It's the lowest common denominator of browsers.

If you're a user, I agree that IE is fine as a browser. But it's only fine because people like me spend a lot of time working around its bugs, and the web would be better if it would just go away.

[The Great Human Empire]

I use it at home, I have used it at home for more then 10 years now.
I don't know why people always whine about IE, it is perfectly fine.

Yeah, I mean, a 1993 Toyota Camery works just fine too. But wouldn't you rather a 2012 Mazda 6? Or maybe a 2010 Audi A4? How about a new 2013 Jeep Wrangler? Or perhaps a 2011 Dodge Ram? Yeah...that's the comparison...

Personally I'd rather have a badass '76 Camaro.

[Defensor]

I don't know why people always whine about IE, it is perfectly fine.

If you're a web developer, you grow to hate it because your site looks fine in every other browser but requires lots of special attention to work properly in IE. Some things just won't work in IE, so rather than offer up a feature that's broken for some users, you don't offer it at all. It's the lowest common denominator of browsers.

If you're a user, I agree that IE is fine as a browser. But it's only fine because people like me spend a lot of time working around its bugs, and the web would be better if it would just go away.

+1

This and a dozen other reason's I could compile why IE is, even today, a relic of Microsoft's inability to adapt to modern coding and software intergration. They always have to do things their way. Not to mention IE's code hasn't changed much since XP came out

[Defensor]

Yeah, I mean, a 1993 Toyota Camery works just fine too. But wouldn't you rather a 2012 Mazda 6? Or maybe a 2010 Audi A4? How about a new 2013 Jeep Wrangler? Or perhaps a 2011 Dodge Ram? Yeah...that's the comparison...

Personally I'd rather have a badass '76 Camaro.

You've found a flaw in my comparison...

*pulls out handgun*

[The Great Human Empire]

Personally I'd rather have a badass '76 Camaro.

You've found a flaw in my comparison...

*pulls out handgun*

I will do what cleverbot does in situations like this

*pulls out AC-130*

But before mod gets mad, I will use IE when I need to.

[Defensor]

You've found a flaw in my comparison...

*pulls out handgun*

I will do what cleverbot does in situations like this

*pulls out AC-130*

But before mod gets mad, I will use IE when I need to.

Alright, I get it.

*Yeah...yeah I'm gonna need those Raptors here ASAP...*

[Lordieth]

That's what I was wondering

I use it at home, I have used it at home for more then 10 years now.
I don't know why people always whine about IE, it is perfectly fine.

It's one of the worst standard-compliant web browsers out there. It works because developers spend waste a great deal of time making sure their code works specifically in Internet Explorer browsers. The only reason most sites look perfectly fine is because of all the "fixes" web designers have to use to make their layouts work in Internet Explorer.

One of the foundations of CSS (web styling) is what's called the "Box Model", where every element is treated as if it sits inside its own box. Internet Explorer can't even get this right. It can't even do basic math in this respect. It is awful.

The world of web design would be a better place without IE.

[Scoochi2]

Personally, I'm a fan of making good pages as they should be.

And then I check it out on IE. And then I think it looks terrible. But I leave it as it is, and encourage my visitors to use a proper browser if they want to see things properly

...except when I get paid. In that case, I have to make a separate style sheet for IE Which I don't make as good as the original.

[The Blaatschapen]

Oh, this is the IE complaint thread.

Yes, IE was horrible. Especially when IE6 was still in use a lot around the world (now mostly in China still http://www.ie6countdown.com/ ). It's getting slightly better though with the newer versions like 9.

At my work we tend to develop with Chrome and Firefox and only after that works correctly we see what kind of changes we need to make it fit in a modern version of IE.

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Oh, this is the IE complaint thread. [...] It's getting slightly better though with the newer versions like 9.

It gets better with every version, but that's not saying much. Take favicons, for example. Every other browser supports PNGs except IE, which only supports the ancient .ico format. Not even IE10 supports PNGs. Historically you could work around this by using conditional comments to supply an .ico to IE and a PNG to everyone else, but IE10 doesn't support conditional comments, either. So you have to give everyone the lowest common denominator experience (.ico) or else spend lots of time weaving hackery magic to detect and work around IE.