Joe Dolson: Accessible Web Design

 Foreword:

No way. I’m NOT writing this article.

Seriously! There is no way I’m going to do this!

You’ve kidnapped my mother? Nope. Still not doing it.

You’ll take away my browser? Erp…Fine. But I won’t like it.

Seriously, there is one tiny thing that I really love about IE: conditional comments. Admittedly, their main function is to make it possible for me to fix the piles of other problems IE causes, but I nonetheless find them to be really fantastic. In fact, I wish that every browser had its own version of conditional comments.

Read more: What I Love About IE

This post has nothing to do with IE7’s support for CSS, adherence to web standards, or general functionality. Instead, it’s a general complaint about one specific annoyance: why did Microsoft’s IE development team want IE7 to “click”?

I mean, as a marketing metaphor, it’s great. Everybody wants their product to “click”. However, in this case I think they’ve taken it a bit too literally.

Read more: Internet Explorer 7: Irritation of the Day