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by trebor 17y ago
My father is a sales engineer, which means he covers all the technical stuff of a sale. His employer is behind in paying commissions my father needs, not simply wants. In my experience of growing up with a father who worked as a technician
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by trebor 17y ago
Which is in-line with its purpose: (in this case) the cellular digestion of waste wood. Given enough time, the fungus would have consumed all the wood, rather than die off like a scientist would prefer to program it to do.
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by trebor 17y ago
Jsm, you might be happy to know, but any Windows system with IE can go back to IE6. I just found IETester recently, and it's been an awesome pack to test compatibility with IE5.5 - IE8! Check it out here: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IE
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by trebor 17y ago
How did you come to this conclusion? IE4 and IE5 were swiftly phased out by the "new, improved, IE6!" if I remember rightly, and I think ActiveX was seriously improved and overhauled with IE6 which many companies use(d) in their intranet. I
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by trebor 17y ago
I agree, jsm386. It's often simpler, though not necessarily easier, to code a design with progressive enhancement in mind rather than graceful degradation. Designing a structure that functions properly in IE6 is not difficult. (Not that I
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by trebor 17y ago
Ugh, now that's just foul. Sometimes I like Microsoft and sometimes I don't... and right now it's definitely the latter. It's effectively stealing another's work legally!
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by trebor 17y ago
Do you mean that, only masochistic programmers ought to survive? Or, didn't we all start out as an unskilled programmer before we gained any skill?
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by trebor 17y ago
Don't forget CSS spriting; static assets from multiple hosts is great, but when you minimize your dependencies AND their size the loading time appears even faster.