The IT Skeptic - Comments for "A new look for the IT Skeptic, and a note on Excessive Technical Fastidiousness or ETF "

currently using and testing with IE7

skeptic — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:13:00 +0000

My mistake-in-haste. I am a technology Luddite but I am in fact currently using and testing with IE7 :-D

I was thinking you wwere referring to the new IE8 beta

Yes, better

Henrik — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:44:39 +0000

you should test in IE7. It has much better CSS support and will hopefully replace IE6 soon. You'll find it behaves much more like FF;-)

Better?

skeptic — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:24:59 +0000

sorry I only test in IE6. Better now? Should be OK in FF too...

Tabs

Henrik — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:47:09 +0000

Actually, the tabs at the top look as awful in my IE 7 as they do in FF.

ETF

alexjones — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:45:48 +0000

I can only heartily agree. ETF is a big problem. In my tiny area of expertise (english schools) the phenomenon is extensive - just one example. In schools the summer break is an excellent opportunity to stabilise and consolidate, upgrade and fix. Sadly many technical leaders indulge in enormous bouts of ETF. I know one school where staff came back to find that the network manager had spent the whole summer tweaking the school intranet web home page so that service desk statistics were visible in prettily formatted graphics. Login still took 40 minutes as per late July.

Alex Jones

bling

skeptic — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:23:48 +0000

for bling

And a good example of ETF is...

Red Pineapple — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:56:27 +0000

All those bookmark icons at the bottom of each blog post. It looks like unneccessary bling.
I occasionally use Digg, but that has an integrated toolbar for web browsers. So why have these icons????