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Beginning HTML User Guide
We've written a basic HTML guide for CMS users. It can be found here.
IE 6: The Deadly Stall
So, for some time now, Microsoft's aged and perilous browser Internet Explorer 6 has been hovering in the 14-20% market share range, depending on the market. I won't go in depth here on all of the reasons for it, but suffice to say that invoking the name of IE6 makes web developers cringe like shell-shocked veterans standing next to a backfire. Its idiosyncratic interpretations of everything from Javascript to CSS to certain image types, and even plain HTML markup, render it painful for anyone attempting to build compliant, cross-browser websites and applications. Development time can be doubled trying to accommodate IE6. It is also 8 years old, and now has two younger siblings that have made many improvements, with a third on the way.
Why, then, does it persist? Why does it seem stuck in a semi-supported limbo?
Architecture IS a marriage of form and function
For anyone to love it, it has to look good. It really does. But all the beauty in the world means nothing if the windows and doors don’t work.
The web is exactly the same.
Syntax:8080 fits right in that spot between design and development, speaking both languages and engineering products that really actually totally work.
And look great, too.
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- All photos by Melanie West unless otherwise noted.