How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
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Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#2I know some people have voiced concerns about Gatekeeper in 10.8, but this seems at least as bad. Especially from a normal user's perspective.
Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#3If you are creating a Windows binary and expect a user to download it, you should be signing the binary. Period. It's not just IE that considers unsigned downloads suspect, many antivirus programs do as well. If you are proud of your work, sign it.
Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#4If you are creating a Windows binary and expect a user to download it, you should be signing the binary. Period. It's not just IE that considers unsigned downloads suspect, many antivirus programs do as well. If you are proud of your work, sign it.
You forgot one step: "If you are proud of your work, then buy a certificate and sign your work"
Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#5If you are creating a Windows binary and expect a user to download it, you should be signing the binary. Period. It's not just IE that considers unsigned downloads suspect, many antivirus programs do as well. If you are proud of your work, sign it.
Maybe I'm too proud of my work to give in to certificate blackmail??
Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#6Basically you're just an idiot.
Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#7If you are creating a Windows binary and expect a user to download it, you should be signing the binary. Period. It's not just IE that considers unsigned downloads suspect, many antivirus programs do as well. If you are proud of your work, sign it.
You forgot one step: "If you are proud of your work, then buy a certificate and sign your work"
Anyone have opinions on good SSL certificate providers or do you agree with the authors recommendation of http://startssl.com ?
Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#8If you are creating a Windows binary and expect a user to download it, you should be signing the binary. Period. It's not just IE that considers unsigned downloads suspect, many antivirus programs do as well. If you are proud of your work, sign it.
True. Part of the problem was simply not knowing that signing was a thing that needed to be done.
It's obvious in hindsight, but since I hadn't released many Windows applications in the past, I didn't realize what I didn't know.
Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#9In general, not using the platform your users use is a path to trouble. For example, because so many designers in the valley use Macs, we continually have to fight an OS X bias in our design process; when designing something, you tend to calibrate it against what you're used to, but when OS X is only 5% of the market, OS X-based designers of client software end up with a massive blind spot when it comes to understanding what comes naturally to the rest of the world.
One example is font and font size choices - because the system fonts and font rendering styles differ between platforms, it becomes very hard to tell what looks broken or 'not quite right' on the platform you're not used to. It's not uncommon to see sites launch with font choices that look rubbish on ClearType, but if you're not used to ClearType, it's hard to tell whether the rubbish is your fault or not.
Apple's excellent execution and Windows' (no-longer-deserved) poor reputation also mean you frequently hear excuses for this behavior like "Windows users won't care because they don't care about design" or "The Apple way is better, so we should do it that way on Windows too". Both of these are infuriating and lead to terribly designed products.
Re: How not using Internet Explorer put me out of touch and cost me dearly
#10I'm no expert on these sorts of things, but it seems like the story goes something like this:
1. Dev checks out his site using IE
2. Dev realizes that IE users were getting scary warnings about his software
3. Dev has to pay up money to a third company to make the scary warnings go away.
Seems like a bad state of affairs to me.