{"id":85,"date":"2006-07-08T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T18:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2006-08-07T07:40:18","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T14:40:18","slug":"ie-as-in-scream-of-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/08\/ie-as-in-scream-of-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"IE, as in &#8220;scream of pain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent six hours of my life trying to figure out a way around the IE missing-images bug, and I&#8217;ve had no luck at all.  There&#8217;s some combination of (presumably correct) CSS and MS-specific extensions that are causing the images to display partially or not at all.<\/p>\n<p>I *did* find pages and pages of hacks to get around the mistakes in IE&#8217;s rendering engine.<\/p>\n<p>I also came across an interesting allegation that says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bazon.net\/mishoo\/articles.epl?art_id=958\">IE has been triple-dipping on image loads<\/a>, making it look as though IE&#8217;s popularity is much higher than it actually is by registering more server hits than are actually needed to render a page.<\/p>\n<p>I woudn&#8217;t doubt it.  I&#8217;ve always found those high numbers to be very suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Damn you, Redmond, for foisting such a malfunctioning, non-compliant, MS-bound piece of crap like IE on an unsuspecting public.  And if it turns out that the only reason we&#8217;ve been biting our tongues and adding workarounds for your busted code is because you artificially inflated the usage stats, well, that&#8217;s good too.  The repercussions will be *very* entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/?q=affiliates&#038;id=112631&#038;t=81\">get Firefox<\/a> or keep holding down the &#8220;Shift&#8221; key while you click the thumbnails.  I&#8217;ll figure something out eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spent six hours of my life trying to figure out a way around the IE missing-images bug, and I&#8217;ve had no luck at all. There&#8217;s some combination of (presumably correct) CSS and MS-specific extensions that are causing the images to display partially or not at all. I *did* find pages and pages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}