Today was a pretty busy day, with the eagerly awaited launching of the new version of the Prudential Gallo Realtors website (http://www.prugallo.com). The new version of the site catches it up with its recently upgraded intranet, and introduces a significant number of new features and capabilities that we’re all proud of.

When the day was over, we got down to the next order of business: a proper preemptive bon voyage to one of the most despised burdens of the web development world: Internet Explorer 6.

Today was a bit of a milestone, with Microsoft having announced a decision to roll out Internet Explorer 7 as an automatic upgrade to certain corporate users still using IE 6. For more insight about the roll-out, about why IE 6 sucked so bad, and why the upcoming IE 8 isn’t much better, head over to Kevin’s blog. To celebrate the approaching demise of IE 6, we decided to host an “IE 6 is Dying” party, complete with subs, chili, beer, and of course, an IE 6 pinata/unholy effigy.

Graphics Designer Tom Brown (who has probably been tormented by IE 6 the most, having to constantly come up with creative ways to get IE 6 to render websites correctly) did the honors of annihilating the demon-logo with a wooden handle while Shaun held on for dear life keeping it steady. We certainly hope that someone from Microsoft will stumble upon these pictures and take our frustration to heart when deciding whether or not to make Internet Explorer 8 finally comply with decade-old standards.

In any event, it was a fun end to a productive day.

February 13th, 2008    posted by: Pete of Inclind, Inc

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