I admit it. I'm not a raw-code kind of geek. Most of the time when I put my pages together, it's with my trusty Dreamweaver web-loom. Very rarely will I tweak raw code: only when necessary, only ever slightly. Only ever when well studied on the matter, as best I can.
I test like a crazy man on every browser I can download and install on my systems, both PC and Mac. Mozilla/Netscape -- all looks fine. iCab, Opera, Chimera, OmniWeb? All render wonderful and consistent visions of my pages.
But then there's Internet Explorer, Bane of My Code, Distorter of Fine Tables. Oh, how you mystify me, Microsoft, with your bloated and idiosyncratic renditions of my humble compositions.
The error escapes me. I do not -- indeed I fear I cannot comprehend what mistroke or oversight possesses your engine to grab hold of such the least little gif as my permalink marker [S+L] and toss it so ever so arrogantly aside.
All the Web says what goes up must come down. Indeed, this law of graphical gravity is steadily obeyed and observed throughout the entire AlterniBrowserverse. Yet you Internet Explorer, Consternation of my Codification, ever beg to differ -- eternally suspending my little permalink [S+L] gif eternally above my comment line.
How I've tried to please you and meet your persistent objections to my code! Relocate! Specify! Designate! Allocate! Endless my attempts and your whimsical way of disregarding every one in turn.
I tell you, IE, from henceforth I banish you from even the darkest recesses of my mind. I no longer belive in you, Internet Explorer. I disavow your existence. I abhor your idiosyncratic insistence on codifying and micromanaging my life. Begone, and trouble me no more. With you there is no forgiveness to be found for even my least misstroke.
I shall seek out a badge, then, and wear it with pride:
"Best Viewed with any browser BUT INTERNET EXPLORER.
Render that, tyrannical beast!!!!
