Browser rant
I'm looking back over the first couple of posts and note they are both about browsers. That makes me quite an oddball as most people couldn't give two short stuffs about what they use to look at the web.
Round here, caring about browsers doesn't make me odd. The team here will wildly outgeek me when it comes to browsers and browser-based development tools. I'm way behind them with only three browsers installed on my computer to the average of about seven on any developers' machine.We care for a simple reason: the browser is our canvas.If the paint doesn't stick or the colours run or the texture is too rough, yer archetypal artist will get stupendously drunk on cheap vin ordinaire before ripping apart the offending cloth with his bare teeth, jumping up and down on it: then changing his mind and selling the tattered remains for a small fortune.Sadly, that's not an option, though life round here might be more fun if it were.What we really care about is making sites that are as good as they can be. This means we pay a lot of attention to the tools that we use. Just like a good artist, we spend a lot of time thinking about the best tool for the job and how to set things up just right so that everything flows. This means installing seven different browsers and any number of special developer tools that reveal to us how the code streams into a page and where the hidden snags are buried. To most people that sounds incredibly geeky, but to us it's what we do.We're geeks and proud of it.
