IE7 Makes Me Swear
October 26, 2006 Posted by Al Castle

trackback Categories: OSX, Puter Stuff, Web Design & Dev, gnash-teeth

I’ve never been a fan of Internet Explorer and while MS bashing is always a fun pastime, the shape of the industry and the technology we enjoy today would not be the same without Microsofts creativity and influence. I can respect that, which what allows me to say IE7 is ~~crap~~ very annoying.

My most recent cause for rapid, boisterous, expletives was spawned as I realized IE6 did not recognize my valid, expensive, Verisign wildcart SSL certificate for my fourth level subdomain - URL like so: this.sub.domain.com

A third level subdomain was recognized, woohoo, but nothing deeper. Opera, Mozilla, and Firefox had no problem. Safari did complain, but since it’s market-share is much more limited and contains several other rendering and compatibility issues I don’t sweat it.

Thinking that MS has had plenty of time to copy all of the great features Opera, Galeon, and Firefox users have enjoyed for years, hopefully one of them would be to support a wildcard certificate for a fourth level domain. I decided to download the upgrade, which prompted for a few updates and the requisite rebooting.

What’s worse is the interception that IE7 takes. Making a point of stating that this site should in no uncertain words be trusted. I get agitated just thinking about it’s ugly little interface.

This graph seems to be appropriate.