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I hate how true this is

Every time I decide to do some web development, there’s a small voice in the back of my head that is whispering a prayer that maybe… just maybe… whatever I try and make, after checking it complies with W3C standards and testing the code exhaustively… maybe maybe… it might work in Internet Explorer… but no…

I’ve seen this image a lot of times over the last few years… I always go in search of it each time I finish a project to make me feel better and that I’m not the only person Internet Explorer hates.

I mean seriously, it doesn’t support opacity, which is just how transparent something is… instead of “opacity:0.5″ (which every other browser supports), I have to use “filter:alpha(opacity:50);” (which is an Internet Explorer only thing). Aaaaannndd… it will only work if it has a zoom… so, everything that needs to have transparency needs to be zoomed to 1x… which does NOTHING… but Internet Explorer needs it…

Also, every other browser I could test with automatically resizes boxes to fit content. Internet Explorer didn’t… so I use width:auto… but Internet Explorer didn’t want to… so, I now have to specify exactly how wide all my boxes are, just to keep Internet Explorer happy…

To conclude, if you want to make web developers happy (the people who make the internet…):

How can you say no to the cute little fox?

I like their site comparison to IE, but I think they’re being generous with the first tick…