Congratulations, Microsoft

Dear Microsoft. Just wanted to con­grat­u­late you on that world domination-thing. You’ve suc­cess­fully made the worst pos­si­ble browser on the mar­ket the most pop­u­lar, turn­ing nor­mal peo­ple into slaves and web devel­op­ment into a painful game of “let’s see if we can find some way out of hav­ing to throw in tons of stu­pid, lit­tle IE-hacks instead of spend­ing time on real devel­op­ment”. On some projects, I think I spend about the same amount of time adjust­ing my orginal design for the IE users (aka ‘the real audi­ence’), mak­ing design­ing a lot less fun and fig­ur­ing out what to charge the client a big fat joke. “Oh, so your cus­tomers belong to the IE-crowd? I’m sorry sir, I think I have to charge you dou­ble.” And then you go: “Sorry, can’t cor­rect our mis­takes — we’re afraid we’ll break the web.” It’s already bro­ken big time, dum­b­asses. Get to work. Now. I’m work­ing hard to give your users a decent web expe­ri­ence, why aren’t you doing the same?

And now: More CSS-adjusting…and maybe a cold beer and some sleep. I’m los­ing it here, I know…