Archive for August, 2011

In my day job, I have to be pragmatic. That means although I am eager to try out new things right away, I have to weigh the pros and cons and the impact it might cause my unsuspecting users. I need to think about backward compatibility, about supporting browsers as old as Father Time and the list never ends. Although those daily exercises provide challenging and intriguing ways of working with old and new technology, I admit I always dream about how it would be to work in a world where IE6 or even IE7 is merely a dream, where I could care less of using a library to achieve cross browser compatibility and blah blah blah …