3 entries tagged microsoft and stupid

Webclasses considered harmful

After a hiatus of a couple of years, here is a new essay about web development. I’m afraid this time the experience I am drawing on is negative rather than positive: Just say No to webclasses. OK, I admit this is something of an obscure topic for a rant—you probably will never have heard of this particular web-application framework before today. But it is sadly occuplying all to much of my working life these days... :-(

Another reason to not use webclasses

I forgot one of the biggest reasons why the webclasses framework should not be used for collaborative web development: it does its best to prevent you from using a source-code control system to co-ordinate your developers’ changes!

Microsoft’s ‘X-UA-Compatible’ Rethought in the Style of HTTP

There is some controversy over the proposal by the Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 team to support a new header X-UA-Compatible in IE8. Leaving aside the argument as to whether this header should exist at all, there is the question of whether anyone at Microsoft has read RFC 2616 (the HTTP 1.1 specification) and spent as much as five minutes considering how to make their header fit in to the established conventions. Read more