From Worse Than Failure, a coder’s redoubt:
Donniel Thomas writes “Javascript isn’t for the weak of heart or those short of patience. What works in one browser may not function properly, or result in a nasty JS error in another (*cough*IE*cough). Which is why I can understand what this programmer meant.”
The following screenshot is from the homepage of Zillow.com, which is one of the most popular and AJAX-y Real-Estate sites on the web. And, as of this writing, the coder’s plea still remains …
Technorati Tags: disintermediation, real estate, real estate marketing, Zillow.com
David G from Zillow.com says:
Ha Ha. A good sense of humor is definitely an asset at Zillow … and (it seems) when developing websites to run on IE.
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June 20, 2007 — 8:54 am
Mike Thoman says:
lol. I bet it will remain, too, unless a decree is issued from upon high…
June 20, 2007 — 9:24 am
David G from Zillow.com says:
Update: the culprit has been tracked down and has weighed in with an explanation for the techies on Donniel Thomas’ post.
June 20, 2007 — 11:04 am
Greg Swann says:
> Update: the culprit has been tracked down and has weighed in with an explanation for the techies on Donniel Thomas’ post.
I understand completely. I lost two hours last night to an MSIE 6-only CSS bug. First break it for sure to identify the bug. Then kludge around it. Then make sure the kludge didn’t break the truly-CSS-compliant browsers. Every dollar of Bill Gates’ billions has been wasted in lost time by the end-users of his crappy products.
June 20, 2007 — 11:23 am
Dave Smith says:
Maybe I missed something, but that looks like a screenshot of a FireFox browser not an IE browser.
Hum. . .
June 20, 2007 — 4:36 pm
B.R. says:
>added this comment to see if simply adding anything to the DIV would prevent the crash…and it worked. I suppose I could have been more cryptic, but as we all know it’s important to future maintenance that any code be self-explanatory.
Don’t be sorry or cryptic- it’s little things like that that remind us (endusers) that theres a human on the other end dreaming and creating this stuff, it’s art- this is the stuff zillows are made of…
June 21, 2007 — 8:36 am