This has to be seen to be believed. It’s for real. Click to enlarge.
OK. Almost for real. It was cute. Here’s the original my wife found:
Here’s Aaron’s poster concept for a related product:
Follow-up: Seems like the idea’s been done, before.
I hate using MSIE because it renders CSS so poorly. Is the end near? See the article where this lovely quotation comes from:
Well, slap me with a moldy turnip and color me flabbergasted! I just think it’s a sad thing that Microsoft is receiving praise for doing something that everyone knows they should’ve done five to seven years ago
December 20, 2007 (Computerworld) — A Microsoft Web evangelist hinted yesterday that news of Internet Explorer 8’s development progress was disclosed months earlier than planned because Web developers recently stepped up criticism of the company’s support for standards.
The news of IE8’s ability to pass a widely used Web standards test also came just two weeks after Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates said he didn’t know why the company’s IE development team was keeping a tight lid on information about the next browser.
IE8, the next upgrade to Microsoft’s browser, passes the Web Standards Project’s Acid2 test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, the IE group’s general manager. “On Wednesday, Dec. 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode,” Hachamovitch said in a post to Microsoft’s official IE blog yesterday. “While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one of several milestones for the interoperability, standards compliance and backwards-compatibility that we’re committed to for this release.”
A week before IE8’s first Acid2 exam, Web standards advocate and blogger Molly Holzschlag had asked Gates about the lack of information coming out of the IE8 group. Gates’ answer: “I’ll have to ask [IE General Manager] Dean [Hachamovitch] what the hell is going on. I mean, we’re not, there’s not like some deep secret about what we’re doing with IE.”
In his blog Wednesday, Hachamovitch seemed to take a shot at those who had criticized his team’s silence. “For IE8, we want to communicate facts, not aspirations,” said Hachamovitch. “We’re listening to the feedback about IE, and at the same time, we are committed to responsible disclosure and setting expectations properly. [But] now that we’ve run the test on multiple machines and seen it work, we’re excited to be able to share definitive information.”
Posts placed on the IE blog last month drew disdain from a large number of users, many of whom identified themselves as Web developers frustrated with the lack of information about IE8’s support for standards and angry at the current IE7’s lack of support for those same standards.
Another Microsoft employee, Joshua Allen, essentially said that the timing of the IE8-Acid2 news was prompted by complaints from users and developers. Allen, an evangelist at Microsoft and one of the hosts for MIX Online, echoed Hachamovitch’s news about IE8’s progress, but said the news was intended for March 2008.
“I had hoped that we could keep the news secret until MIX08, but the masses were demanding information,” said Allen, who linked to an earlier Hachamovitch blog post that had attracted more than 580 comments, the majority of them negative.
MIX08 is the Microsoft-sponsored Web developer conference slated to run in Las Vegas March 5-7, 2008.
The comments attached to Hachamovitch’s Tuesday post, however, were generally supportive, although some users remained cautious. “Well, slap me with a moldy turnip and color me flabbergasted!” said a user going by the name David Lane. “Who would’ve thought. [But] I just think it’s a sad thing that Microsoft is receiving praise for doing something that everyone knows they should’ve done five to seven years ago.”
I am not David Lane nor do I play him on TV. But it’s funny to restate his cogent point about their MSIE browser:
Well, slap me with a moldy turnip and color me flabbergasted! I just think it’s a sad thing that Microsoft is receiving praise for doing something that everyone knows they should’ve done five to seven years ago
Learn about ACID2.
Image above from Turnip Family Secrets.
Movable Type has gone open source. It’s the only way they’ll compete with the rapidly-improving WordPress. Yeah, WP is sloppy and freewheeling at times (oy, I’m working with bbPress and it’s far from ready for primetime) but it’s a lot more nimble and there are plugins and capable and helpful users in forums up the wazoo — that’s tech-speak for “there are many competent technicians”.
I’ve been with WordPress since it was b2. I’ve tinkered with Movable Type. I’ve agonized through MT’s compiles. I came to the conclusion about 18 months ago that few new blogs should go the route of MT over WP but that existing installs, especially professional sites, certainly didn’t need to do a tear-down.
WordPress is PHP-based and MT is PERL-based, if that matters to you or your tech staff. Background. I live eat and breathe MySQL databases and HTML and I haven’t needed to manipulate text much since my days doing pattern matching for an art museum back in the late 1980’s, so PHP is my preference.
The wisdom of MT going open-source is good for MT and good for its client base and good for all of us. It means that more people will be contributing plugins, more will be testing, and it will be come a more secure and robust product. Competition is good.
Prediction: 2008 will probably be a banner year for script-kiddies hammering MT political sites. If you’re running MT and you’ve got anything controversial, make sure your webmaster and your web host is up on security measures. If you’ve been running MT and are happy with it, make sure it’s current and there’s no reason to change. If you’re on the fence and need to develop something soon, I’d go with WordPress until the dust settles and the first few waves of script kiddie mischief have been managed by the MT folk.
No doubt, like the early days of the WordPerfect and Microsoft Word wars, there will soon be open source conversion utilities allowing your new site to be morphed into the latest superior open source content management system.
And let’s not kid ourselves… it’s far beyond blogging software now.
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