How do you overcome IE and all its faults?

[treehouse, Teacher Q&A] 0:00 [How do you overcome IE and all its faults?] 0:05 I think IE is starting to catch up to what you'd call 0:07 alternative browsers--or not even really alternative now. 0:10 I just call them modern browsers. 0:12 [answer by Nick Pettit] But I would always just develop to the standard first 0:15 and then worry about 0:20 trying to overcome any kind of bugs with IE, 0:23 whether it's display issues or some sort of weird JavaScript error. 0:26 I really wouldn't worry about Internet Explorer up front 0:30 because typically that's just going to slow you down. 0:35 Frankly, like I said, Internet Explorer 0:39 doesn't represent as large of a market 0:42 as it once did. 0:45 It's still very important, and you should definitely make your site work with Internet Explorer, 0:47 but I always leave that until the end of the process. 0:51 [answer by Allison Grayce] 0:54 I think the thing to keep in mind with IE is just to kind of 0:56 accept it from the very beginning 0:59 and kind of make it a part of your process to always have IE open. 1:02 Instead of waiting until the very end when you're about to launch your website 1:06 to test in IE, just kind of test as you go-- 1:09 to debug as you go. 1:13 [answer by Jim Hoskins] Raw power. 1:16 It's just practice. 1:19 You deal with IE for so long and eventually you start understanding 1:21 all the things that it can't do. 1:24 You just kind of work that into your model of how you build things. 1:27 It's kind of sad because then you start thinking in terms of 1:30 things that you'd like to be able to do, but you know you just can't 1:33 unless you just say IE is going to get out of here. 1:36 It's difficult at first, but if you spend enough time with it, 1:40 you'll learn the ins and outs and you'll just 1:43 start thinking in the IE model of 1:46 you can't really make it that good. 1:49 You don't. Just run away. [laughter] 1:51 [answer by Amit Bijlani] 1:53 You have to deal with it. 1:55 It's out there, and there's a lot of people still using IE. 1:57 It's getting better. IE9 is way better than what 6 was and 7 was. 2:00 And 10 is supposedly even better. 2:04 Of course, Microsoft is also poking fun at themselves 2:08 and how bad the previous versions of the browser were. 2:11 In addition, you have a lot of tools out there 2:15 that can help you make your web app 2:18 more friendly with IE. 2:21 There is Browser Shot, BrowserStack. 2:23 That helps you test your 2:27 website in different versions of IE. 2:30 And then there are things like Modernizr that help you 2:33 check what capabilities are available in the browser. 2:36 There's a whole slew of Frameworks and stuff like that. 2:39 So just be patient and do the work. 2:42 [Q&A treehouse] 2:48