RasterWeb!The The Milwaukee Weblogger Meetup Group will be meeting next Wednesday March 16, 2005, and while I’ve never made it to a meetup in the past, I’m going to actually make an effort to attend this one. (Though if I get there before 8 PM it’ll be a miracle.)
So, in the Milwaukee area? Got a blog? Show up!
I’ve known Brent for maybe 10 years now (well, in an online sense.) I think it’s been about 10 years, though I’m not sure, I just remember we were both involved in Frontier back then…
Anyway, there’s an interview at DrunkenBlog, and in it is this quote from Brent:
Life’s too short. I want to work on things I like working on. That excludes Windows.
Is that a great philosophy or what? I knew that Brent was a smart guy…
When you hear about a web-based RSS aggregator from Microsoft and it says it “doesn’t work in Firefox” are you at all surprised? Would you expect anything else?
Do you think it works in any browser/platform besides IE/Windows?
And if someone feeds you that crap about how it was developed using IE, but later they will make it work in Firefox or Safari, or lynx, it’s most likely a load of crap, and if it isn’t a load of crap, then it’s just proof that Microsoft hires people to build stuff like this that just do not understand the web, because the killer web developers/designers I know certainly don’t work that way…
Honestly, everytime I see something from Microsoft that someone else has already done (and done better) I’m convinced it’s just added to the MS CheckList so they can say “Yeah, we got that” as in “Search? We got that” and “Blogs? We got that” and “Aggregator? We got that” and on and on…