The 11% for IE11 challenge
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The 11% for IE11 challenge
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Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#2The blog and the 11% for IE11 landing page both imply that if you complete the challenge, you will win the prizes described.
For instance, the blog entry says: "If you can get 11% better page load performance from your site, we'll send you and your team some 11 goodness." I'm no lawyer, but that sounds like a valid unilateral contract to me.
Similarly, the landing page says: "Show us how you got 11% better page load performance in your organization's home web page and we'll send you all this goodness."
But in the fine print, it says: "The first 11 organizations that meet the qualifications above will each receive the following: 11 pizzas (in the form of a $120 gift card), 11 year-long subscriptions to BrowserStack (ARV $240 each), and 11 copies of Parallels Desktop 9 for Mac (ARV $79 each)."
There's a heck of a big difference between "If you do this, we'll give you this" and "If you're one of the first 11 people to do this, we'll give you this."
The fact that there will be only 11 prize winners should be made more clear. After all, there is PIZZA on the line. And there's nothing like a pizza bait-and-switch to get developers angry at you.
Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#3Am I the only person who is sensitive to JPEG artifacts? Look at this image from the article. Why did they use such low quality JPEG?
http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver...
Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#4Wow, the debugger tools looke very nice. Will need to check them out.
Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#5Am I the only person who is sensitive to JPEG artifacts? Look at this image from the article. Why did they use such low quality JPEG? http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver...
That's how you get your 11% performance gains!
Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#6Here's a challenge:
It would be nice if Microsoft would fix the issues with IE11. Like all the sites that work with IE10, that don't work anymore with IE11. Their solution was to issue an IE11 upgrade blocker with a shitty manual install routine.
Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#7Am I the only person who is sensitive to JPEG artifacts? Look at this image from the article. Why did they use such low quality JPEG? http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver...
Haha. I was kinda thinking if Kraken.io was the culprit there for a bit. ;)
Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#8Am I the only person who is sensitive to JPEG artifacts? Look at this image from the article. Why did they use such low quality JPEG? http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver...
They probably compressed it on quality level 11%
Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#9Here's a challenge: It would be nice if Microsoft would fix the issues with IE11. Like all the sites that work with IE10, that don't work anymore with IE11. Their solution was to issue an IE11 upgrade blocker with a shitty manual install routine.
Internet Explorer has been and continues to be hostile to the web. It easily makes my job as a web developer at least 50% more difficult which translates into costing my employer more money.
As far as I'm concerned, we as developers need to make a concerted effort to force Microsoft to either adopt WebKit or release a version of IE that is 100% standards compliant.
Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge
#10Here's a challenge: It would be nice if Microsoft would fix the issues with IE11. Like all the sites that work with IE10, that don't work anymore with IE11. Their solution was to issue an IE11 upgrade blocker with a shitty manual install routine.
Is this an issue with IE11, or an issue with sites built to work with the way IE10 handled certain things that have now been brought better in line with standards?
I know my team had to make an adjustment due to the user agent changes, initially our site loaded in IE11 by stating the user needs IE7 or greater.