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It was the Developer Toolbar, I've got a pet project that I'm making compatible with IE5 and its challenging to work without it.

• yellowapple 7y ago
  What kind of project in this day and age would require IE5 compatibility?
  • amiga-workbench 7y ago
    Its not a commercial project, just an alternate (lightweight) front end for a forum and I wanted to prove to myself that old versions of IE weren't as bad to develop for as I remember. The truth ended up being somewhere in the middle, I was reminded of rendering errors that I had long forgotten, but all in all it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It helps that I'm just building a website in the classic sense, not a blob of JavaScript that happens to puke out HTML, and when I run into something that's awkward to implement I can just adjust the design to work with what I have. I realise that's not something a lot of people in a commercial job would have had the luxury of doing.
    • yellowapple 7y ago
      Neat! I don't know if I'd ever want to target IE at all (I'd prefer to pretend it doesn't exist), but I do like to test stuff on niche browsers (NetSurf, Dillo, lynx/links/w3m) and see how usable the site is.