Friday, July 29, 2005

KU Construction Hazards and Dashed Techie Hopes

A Dilemma
I actually watched a guy fall up the stairs on the way to Bailey Hall. Yep, it was ugly. The kind of fall that sends notebooks flying in the bushes and scrapes knees against the concrete.

I was walking far enough behind that by the time I reached him, he was standing again, braced against the hand-support. That's when I saw blood. And he was no longer making an effort to get up the stairs.

What does a person do in this situation? Do I offer to help him the rest of the way? Or walk past under the pretense that I hadn't seen the incident?

The question is this: Which hurts more: trying to limp up the stairs on an injured knee or the scathed pride at having fallen *badly* in front of a person of the opposite sex?

Internet Explorer with Tabs?
That's a nice feature, but I would *much* rather have a browser that is standards compliant like just about EVERY OTHER browser on the market.

Here's a review of IE 7.0 I pulled from Slashdot.

A Subtle Note to Gates:
CSS-Support! Just *do* it! The most-used browser on the planet is stuck in the Ice Age. I'm going to bomb Microsoft if I have to include *one* more hack specific to fixing YOUR STUPID BROWSER in my code again...

3 comments:

Thia Michelle said...

Nope... thanks for the link, blue2go. :)

Dubhatch, thanks for the screenshots. It gives me somewhat of an idea.

Do you know if sharepooint doesn't work with firefox because of *firefox's* limitations or because MS doesn't allow it cross-browsers (As in, you can only visit Windows Update with IE)?

I'm not very familiar with the project.

Thanks again!

ilaiy said...

Use firefox .. it is a much better browser than IE


./thanks
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Thia Michelle said...

Gee, Ilaiy... thanks. Because I had never heard of Firefox before.

A few of my posts where I basically drop down on my knees begging visitors to switch to Firefox:
Adblock for Spyware
Welcome Thia's Digital Playpen
New Banners on this Site
Wonder Dogs and Smelly Trash
Firefox Woes

Note to future posters: If you're looking to unabashedly advertise your site, at least read the blog first so you don't sound like a moron when you leave a comment.