020050601 23:21 • 
I spent some time tonight pushing around store code and CSS for the new Daevlmakr site. Daevlmakr’s moving closer to the space I want it to live in by leaps and bounds. My biggest trouble in the design process is Internet Explorer’s broken CSS implementation.
I realized, while raining curses on MS for the thirteenth time in as many minutes, the tactics they utilize to break standards are similar in some ways to what the religions use to break secular power.
Both play somewhat by the rules until they have strength in numbers. Both then break a standard and turn it around to their own advantage: MS by forcing developers to deploy for and users to use their broken but widely accepted software as a matter of practicality, religion by forcing governance to respond to and individuals to deal with its broken but widely accepted mental code as a matter of practicality.
A majority has strength to enforce their dogma, but might doesn’t make it right.
How do you fix a standard once it’s broken for the majority of users? How do you fix a memetic model once it has infected the masses?
Supposedly, IE7 will fix Microsoft’s poor CSS. Any suggestions for a fix on the other?
020050415 16:05 •
I’ve added two new badges to 2Second(fuse)‘s left column.
The Livejournal badge links to 2Second(fuse)‘s RSS feed syndicated on LJ, which can be added to Friends pages. I’ve added it to my own on vitruvius.livejournal.com and it works wonderfully. An interesting feature of Livejournal’s implementation of feeds: comments are available on each post. True slickness would be had if LJ emailed comments to the author address listed in the feed itself.
Firefox badge. I debated adding this. I’m not interested in annoying Win users or being branded a software bigot. Here’s the scoop: I’ve tested this site on every browser available on OSX, Win2k and WinXP (Linux tests coming soon) and the ONLY browser that doesn’t render the CSS positioning properly is… you guessed it, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
If you catch the site formatted a bit oddly, I’m pushing the CSS around in an attempt to find solutions which will render properly in IE. Of course, when it renders properly in IE it breaks in Safari, Firefox, Netscape and Opera.
Add in security and other flaws Internet Explorer is routinely roasted for and I can’t in good conscience refrain from recommending Firefox. This is not bigotry. Cross-platform, stable, secure, standards compliant, fast, tabbed browsing: Firefox is simply a superior product.
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