The versioning switch's default is incorrect

By crisp on Friday 22 February 2008 01:53 - Comments (2)
Categories: Browsers, Internet, Views: 2223

In fact, the whole versioning switch idea is bad to begin with. If you still don't understand why after my previous blog-entries and after having read for instance Jeremy Keith's reasoning on AListApart (and failed to see the flaws in Jeffrey Zeldman's entry) here's a break-down of the arguments against the versioning switch and against the proposed default (== IE7 mode):

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Using the HTML5 doctype prematurely "considered harmful"

By crisp on Sunday 27 January 2008 16:13 - Comments (3)
Categories: Browsers, HTML, Internet, Views: 2088

There has been a lot of fuss around Microsoft's ludicrous idea of freezing IE into IE7's quirksmode rendering for the (un)foreseeable future unless you specify some proprietary meta-tag in all your documents. There was however a tiny shimmer of good faith in this huge anti-competitive move when Chris Wilson, MSIE's productmanager, offered that this lock-in might not affect documents using some new doctype or mimetype that is currently unsupported by IE.

By the way, the "considered harmful" in the title is intentional even though it has been abused as a populistic phrase throughout the years: it seems fitting since no one less than Eric Meyer once wrote an essay on the subject of why "considered harmful" can be considered harmful by itself ;)

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Banners en browsing performance impact nl

Door crisp op maandag 17 december 2007 00:06 - Reacties (8)
Categorieën: Internet, Tweakers.net, Views: 1350

Het zal niemand verbazen dat reclame op websites (banners) een negatieve impact hebben op de 'browsing performance': je moet immers meer data ophalen en dat moet ook nog eens allemaal gerendered en getoond worden door je browser.

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