For the longest of times Internet Exploder users at ra-ajax.org have seen this...
...and we've taken a lot of pepper for it from visitors who thought we "shouldn't be doing so" and people who believes that Ra-Ajax doesn't work on IE etc.
Let me get this one out of the picture immediately;
Ra-Ajax works with IE!
Sure IE has more then its shares of "issues". But in general Ra-Ajax works on IE as much as it is possible to get an Ajax Library to work on IE. Even on IE6...
The only reason why we've done this is because we wanted users to stop using IE since it's an inferior browser. Nothing more, nothing less.
Today I discovered something really beautiful though, because today I discovered that
Google is doing the same thing...!And NOT on some "narrow website", but actually their *prime* tool;
GMail...!
I find this hysterically funny and I think a lot of other website should follow the lead from Ra-Ajax, GMail and so on...
Imagine how many people would switch if FaceBook or something did this ... ;)
In fact I think this is such a day of joy that I would encourage users to switch to
GMail for their email - since apparently Google have at least today proved that they're willing to do the "right thing" even though it will be costy ... ;)
This is a day of HAPPINES for the Open Web! :)
.t