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Posted: 17 September 2007 04:20 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Please don’t take this video post for anything more than it is… a 30 minute creative break for Jones and I. We’re just blowing off steam on a topic near and dear to the heart of most web developers, nothing more, nothing less. If you have a video cam and need to blow off some IE6 steam as well, we invite you to post your own IE6 Eulogy and link to it from this post’s discussion thread. Or just write a eulogy. And while debugging IE6 is indeed cause for lots of cursing, please keep it PG if you link to it from our thread.

Also, Jones wants me to make sure and note a critical error in my eulogy. I refer to Eric Meyer as Meyers. My humble apologies to Eric. Also, I should note that I’ve had exactly three meaningful interactions with Jeffrey Zeldman and my referring to him as “grumpy” is an outright deception. He is, in fact, quite personable from my brief experience. Never-the-less, that beanie on his book does make him look grumpy, no?

Next week we’ll try and do something useful for new EE users.

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Posted: 17 September 2007 05:13 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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LOL! Jones FTW! :-D

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Posted: 17 September 2007 05:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Although i want to go to DIV-ititus, table-less designs, today i had to make a FLV-player inside a table jusst because IE6 refuses to obey CSS. Sadly, many governmental institutions (here in Holland) use older machines with the-dreaded-one.... Thankx for the video, may The foX live with FiRe

edit:also commemorating my avatar. CI to EE-transition

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Posted: 17 September 2007 05:24 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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OMFG totally rocks !!!! BYE BYE IE6 !! atleast IE7 is a *little* *ahum* better..(atleast png support raspberry)
So next week some EE gossip please smile

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Posted: 17 September 2007 05:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Les, that hat is a good look for you.

Derek, I need your moisturizer, dude, because you look so young! And that wall color is smashing.

Good times, y’all. Down with IE6!  Up with People!

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Posted: 18 September 2007 03:15 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Great video! Gave me a good laugh. And, good to know that it is finally official!

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Posted: 18 September 2007 05:24 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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yvonne m. - 18 September 2007 03:15 AM

Great video! Gave me a good laugh. And, good to know that it is finally official!

Can I see the death certificate please. Not being morbid or anything but just would like to be able to put this to rest for ever!! grin grin

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Posted: 18 September 2007 06:08 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Can I see the death certificate please. 

Mark

I think we’ll have to take Leslie’s and Derek’s word for it and not assume that they tell us stories wink

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Posted: 18 September 2007 07:59 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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A number of people have been confused by my portion of the video, so for those of you who have not had the pleasure: original.

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Posted: 18 September 2007 08:18 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Aha! thanks for clearing that up Derek, I was beginning to think you had been out on the piss the night before.

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Posted: 18 September 2007 08:30 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Please please please please please tell me that is not for real!! ???

Either I am having problems with my hearing today or that must have been doctored? Could someone really answer that question in that way??

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Posted: 18 September 2007 08:30 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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I’m afraid that was very live, very real, and every bit as tragic as you are thinking.

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Posted: 18 September 2007 09:00 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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Sure wish I could get the whole video to load… downer

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Posted: 18 September 2007 12:11 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]  
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Still having problems, Michael?  Have you tried opening the video directly in Quicktime?

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Posted: 18 September 2007 12:35 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]  
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Ah - I finally got it.  Didn’t work at last attempt on my XP desktop, but it did on my new laptop with Vista - once I installed the FF QT plug in (still “moving in").

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Posted: 18 September 2007 01:51 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]  
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Derek sounds as if he’s been a victim of American public school systems.

Well, done guys! The video blog is a neat idea. EE TV! Or, TvEE!

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Posted: 21 September 2007 03:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]  
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Coming to think of it, what are your thoughts on the other
funeral at hand… the one for PHP4 ? And does this influence EE ?
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PHP 4 end of life announcement
... three years ago since PHP 5 has been released!
From december 31, 2007 on, no more new 4.x versions and
on August 8th, 2008 (888), the plug will definitely be pulled for four,
with not even anymore SECURITY fixes…
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Also there’s an initiative by some web-app developers
(like phpMyAdmin) to GoPHP5.org

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Posted: 21 September 2007 03:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]  
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GDmac - 21 September 2007 03:27 PM

Coming to think of it, what are your thoughts on the other
funeral at hand… the one for PHP4 ? And does this influence EE ?
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PHP 4 end of life announcement
... three years ago since PHP 5 has been released!
From december 31, 2007 on, no more new 4.x versions and
on August 8th, 2008 (888), the plug will definitely be pulled for four,
with not even anymore SECURITY fixes…
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Also there’s an initiative by some web-app developers
(like phpMyAdmin) to GoPHP5.org

You have no idea how many blog entries Paul and I have written and deleted on that very topic.  Maybe someday we’ll actually publish one of them, heh.

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Posted: 21 September 2007 04:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 18 ]  
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LOL  haha, ouch, yes, i can image the can the can of worms such a blog-post would open…
The transition to php5 is just beginning, but it will include ISP’s screaming, coders screaming,
and users screaming even harder…

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