Forgive me, Father…
...for I have sinned. It has been three weeks since my last cup of coffee.
So the doctors tell me that caffeine aggravates a condition that I have. I'm a bit skeptical. They claim to know very little about how to control said condition, but are nevertheless certain that caffeine makes it worse. Add to that that different doctors say different things. Some say I should abstain completely. Others use the words "to excess," implying that some consumption is OK. Not to mention I don't feel a whole lot different when I avoid caffeine.
At any rate, I've decided I'd stay away from caffeine for a while and see what happens. I used to stop at 7-eleven and get coffee a lot. So today when I stopped at 7-eleven to get gas, my brain said, "Ooo! Coffee!"
Little backstabber.
One can hope.
IE6 is the bane of the web developer's existence. I know. I am one. I hate IE6. Not a big fan of IE in general. Sorta goes along with the whole Microsoft trying to be the bully in the playground and control which marbles we're allowed to play with. IE6, though is an unqualified piece of junk and a huge failure. And yet, current guestimates suggest up to 25% of traffic is still coming from someone using IE6.
An new initiative is out there to put an end to IE6: IE6 No More. As much as I'd like to hope it will make a difference, I'm skeptical. For starters, as Mashable points out, many folk still using IE6 are stuck because of IT restrictions. I occasionally do work for one such company. Have you ever worked for a major corporation with a firmly entrenched IT bureaucracy? I have. It takes an act of God to change anything. Wouldn't surprise me if the aforementioned company has just gotten around to deploying XP SP3.
Then there was Save The Developers initiative that was started late '07 or early '08. Check out the web site and see how far that went.
It's too bad. If it were up to developers, we'd have quit supporting IE6 the minute IE7 came out. It's not though. It's up the the client. Can you think of a single company willing to risk alienating up to 25% of it's audience? I thought not.
Personally, I do my best to ignore IE6 unless a client has a specific need. None of my clients are trying to reach anyone in a developing nation, and basically—based on the types of sites I generally work on—if you're working for a company with a draconian IT department, you probably shouldn't be on my site while you're at work anyway.