IE 8 particular about which web sites

| Never would get that far. They wouldn't let you past their entrance
| with your ratty old dirty jeans (IE8). Their restaurant, their rules.
| You are telling me in your history of retail dining that you never
| encountered a restaurant that says "No shirt, no shoes, no service"?
|

Mostly I was just joking to lighten things up,
because I thought you were being a bit harsh.
Joking is.... well, wikipedia should be ble to
explain it.

My experience with top-level restaurants is
limited, but they seem to generally keep jackets
and ties on hand for guests who need them.
It's an interesting distinction. The old money
is big on subtle protocol. The new money is big
on swank. You can't borrow a flashy suitcoat at
the latest trendy nightclub because your flashy
suitcoat and your money are the only evidence
there is that you're a winner. Winners are losers
by definition, which is what makes trendy places
so painfully anxious. The only relief from that
anxiety is the constant display of this week's
winner markings.

| Way too many users forget whose property a web site is. Those users
| feel entitled just because it was doled out to them for free. Not their
| site, not their rules.

Harrumph. It used to be that rule #1 in web design
was that a site should degrade gracefully. That means
that there should be options to accomodate older
browsers, no script, different browsers, etc. The idea
being that if a web designer is doing their job well then
their webpage will display well in all currently-used
configurations. Demanding a particular browser is part
of the move toward services.

Mayayana wrote:

Harrumph. It used to be that rule #1 in web design
was that a site should degrade gracefully. That means
that there should be options to accomodate older
browsers, no script, different browsers, etc. The idea
being that if a web designer is doing their job well then
their webpage will display well in all currently-used
configurations. Demanding a particular browser is part
of the move toward services.

The new guard didn't learn from the old guard. Remember when you bought
a PC and got several hundred pages of documentation that was not only
thorough but extremely detailed that you could learn the hardware? Then
the documentation showed up on CDs. Then it was part of the install.
Then it was links to online doc pages. Each time the docs got shorter
and shorter and much more shallow.

VanguardLH wrote:
Mayayana wrote:

Harrumph. It used to be that rule #1 in web design
was that a site should degrade gracefully. That means
that there should be options to accomodate older
browsers, no script, different browsers, etc. The idea
being that if a web designer is doing their job well then
their webpage will display well in all currently-used
configurations. Demanding a particular browser is part
of the move toward services.

The new guard didn't learn from the old guard. Remember when you bought
a PC and got several hundred pages of documentation that was not only
thorough but extremely detailed that you could learn the hardware? Then
the documentation showed up on CDs. Then it was part of the install.
Then it was links to online doc pages. Each time the docs got shorter
and shorter and much more shallow.

But they should be on the Internet now?
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