Incompetence

After spending time perfecting my elemental themes on philisha.net, I loaded up the site in Internet Explorer, and with a shock realized how broken IE is. There is no support for transparency in images, so my work spiffing up the buttons is lost on most poor fools. It can’t render Courier properly, so viewers stuck in their ways get this hideous pixelation when using the Fire element. There are loads of layout and alignment issues, but the most ironic problem is how the Mozilla Firefox button doesn’t even show up right due to the transparency issue. So they can see my invection in text instead.

I just about expressed my frustration by loading a popup to the Firefox home page whenever anyone looked at the site in IE, but decided against it. Punishing people for ignorance is not the answer, as satisfying as it would be.