I was sent a link to a Microsoft KB article which related to IE8’s new standards compatibility mode. When I read through it, I don’t know why or what made me laugh, but I found this quote amusing and just had to make a picture out of it.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 end-users can work around these issues by pressing Emulate IE7 on the menu bar in the browser window. When the Emulate IE7 button is depressed, Web pages will display in Internet Explorer 7 Standards mode.
Oh noes! The Emulate IE7 button is depressed! Must get him some prozac…
An old article appeared in my phpdeveloper.org inbox today, about Microsoft and Zend uniting to improve Windows running PHP support. A chap called Tony Bibbs raised a question back then which I think could still be unanswerable, seeing as Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo! still hasn’t been accepted.
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Those who knew me at Airborne Interactive know that I am really a Linux guru and I used to hate all this Microsoft. I’ve changed a little - only a little now. I have an XBox 360 now, and I even paid for a copy of Windows Vista (shock horror!). I like Microsoft Visual Studio, I like C#. .NET is a great invention, a massive set of libraries that allow you to do many laborious tasks that you have to do manually in C/C++. There’s less control over what’s going on, but for the starter programmer, its a good place.
My major gripe is ASP.NET. Now I’ve not done classic ASP before, but I have done tonnes of PHP. ASP.NET is absolutely dismal in my opinion. ASP.NET is just C# (or VB, but who uses VB these days?) — which is a Windows application language — pretending to be a web development language. It really really doesn’t work.
