Given the level of effort it takes us as web developers to support IE, I don't think you can fault people for expressing their frustration every once in a while. IE is the greatest source of dev-rage in web development. I personally appreciate the level of attention that IE has been getting lately, but we're still fighting with the old versions, waiting for them to drop off.
It's not fair at all to take it out on individuals on the IE team or do something stupid like threaten physical violence (and I'd fully support someone being called out for that), but letting people rant at your organization as a whole keeps people sane. Leaving Posterous because a designer finally hit a boiling point in frustration? That's just as bad.
FWIW, I can appreciate how hard it is to work on a team where you're fighting both the legacy of your old products and the decades-old impression of Microsoft as anti-web. Every version reduces the amount of frustration we encounter and every version that drops off makes us all that much happier. We're glad to see IE join the forefront of the browser race again. :)
I personally appreciate the level of attention that IE has been getting lately, but we're still fighting with the old versions, waiting for them to drop off
You can't really fault Microsoft because IE6 has yet to drop off. To their credit, Microsoft has made large strides in getting users to upgrade, but as reported in the past a lot of corporate customers are unwilling to upgrade. I'm sure a lot of people on the IE team would like to see IE6 die as much as the rest of us.
It's hard not to fault 'them' (the organization, Microsoft) because it was the years of inaction on the part of the executive that left IE6 as the foremost release for so long. It's not the fault of the current IE team and possibly the executives in the chain of command over the web clients, but it most certainly is the fault of the organization.
It's at least partly the fault of the US government that tried to dismantle the company over developing a free browser. If it was your software company, would you get right to work on the next version after that?
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Given the level of effort it takes us as web developers to support IE, I don't think you can fault people for expressing their frustration every once in a while. IE is the greatest source of dev-rage in web development. I personally appreciate the level of attention that IE has been getting lately, but we're still fighting with the old versions, waiting for them to drop off.
It's not fair at all to take it out on individuals on the IE team or do something stupid like threaten physical violence (and I'd fully support someone being called out for that), but letting people rant at your organization as a whole keeps people sane. Leaving Posterous because a designer finally hit a boiling point in frustration? That's just as bad.
FWIW, I can appreciate how hard it is to work on a team where you're fighting both the legacy of your old products and the decades-old impression of Microsoft as anti-web. Every version reduces the amount of frustration we encounter and every version that drops off makes us all that much happier. We're glad to see IE join the forefront of the browser race again. :)
I personally appreciate the level of attention that IE has been getting lately, but we're still fighting with the old versions, waiting for them to drop off
You can't really fault Microsoft because IE6 has yet to drop off. To their credit, Microsoft has made large strides in getting users to upgrade, but as reported in the past a lot of corporate customers are unwilling to upgrade. I'm sure a lot of people on the IE team would like to see IE6 die as much as the rest of us.
It's hard not to fault 'them' (the organization, Microsoft) because it was the years of inaction on the part of the executive that left IE6 as the foremost release for so long. It's not the fault of the current IE team and possibly the executives in the chain of command over the web clients, but it most certainly is the fault of the organization.
It's at least partly the fault of the US government that tried to dismantle the company over developing a free browser. If it was your software company, would you get right to work on the next version after that?