Yet Another Reason to Hate Internet Explorer

[chicken]

What this person said: Internet Explorer Makes Me ☹.

Just as for the users who commented on this guy's post, Microsoft's "One Font to Rule Them All" (Arial Unicode MS) doesn't quite do it for me. For example, it only contains 148 of the 194 characters in Latin-Extended-B (whereas Microsoft Sans Serif contains 179 of them, but it is a sadly ugly font). Of course, several of the necessary Romanian characters are not among those 148 characters.

*sigh*

Either IE7 needs to come out really soon, or people need to stop using IE6 and start using Firefox and Opera. Grrrrr. Because I'm tired of writing hacks into my code to accomodate this stupid browser.

Comments

[anelith.livejournal.com]

I know this doesn't have anything to do with your post, but since you're having a moment of rage at Microsoft, can I join in?

I just spent the past week and a half hitting my head against a wall because Microsoft deliberately sabotaged communication between Access and Word, programmatically speaking. I was trying to create a link so that my users could click on a button and have a mail merge happen with a Word document from a table in the database. A book I've been using, that was written specifically for Access 2003, says you can do this AND has sample code included in the CD that came with the book. HOWEVER -- after fruitlessly trying to run that sample code and having it crash repeatedly, I searched and searched on the Net, and finally found an article published by Microsoft in which they acknowledged the problem and said it was intentional. The article was dated August of this year so I guess that explains why the code worked when the book was published, but not now. Anyway, the reason Microsoft did this is to prevent hackers from gaining control of your database, but basically it prevents programmers from automating mail merges, apparently. I've tried two different approaches and each time it prevented the mail merge from happening.

If there was ever a time that called for CAPS LOCK OF RAGE, this is it for me. I'm fed up.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Well, as for Access, I'm biased. I HATE everything about Access. It's the most unintuitive DB ever. Give me mySQL any day. So I can join in your rage.

It's sad that Microsoft's only solution to hacking is to disable things for *everyone*. Talk about throwing out the baby with the bath water, to use a trite expression. Geeeez.

[saifai.livejournal.com]

Fonts in general with websites, regardless of browser, pisses me off. The one thing Firefox has going for it, and thus earns it an extra brownie point in my book, is that there's that easy thing in the navbar that allows me to switch between various encoded characters if something doesn't look right on someone's page.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, IE has one of those, too, plus with the right clicking, but Firefox is still far superior.

[saifai.livejournal.com]

OH sure. Get technical on me why don't you. :P *gr*

...but Firefox is still far superior.

*nods* Won't argue there.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

In that connection, here is the ultimate nerd T-shirt.