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