Special Tuesday morning IE hate

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From: David Landgren
Subject: Special Tuesday morning IE hate
Date: 10:07 on 03 Oct 2006
I am hating Internet Explorer this morning.

We are rolling out a Hummingbored portal at work, and someone has fucked 
up some JavaScript somewhere and I am seeing a IE pop-up informing me 
that "problems with this Web page might prevent it from being displayed 
properly", and a text-field below that indicates that at line 264, char 
9, getAttribute(...) is null or not an object.

Fair enough. So I am wanting to wish to cut'n'paste the exact text into 
a ticket to let one of web monkeys figure it out. But do you think I can 
do that? no-o-o-o-o. And there is sufficient text in the textarea that 
it has both horizontal and vertical scroll bars, so I can't even 
decently take a screen shot, short of stitching bitmaps together.

And as far as I can see, there is no other way to recover the message. 
So now I have to get someone to come over to my monitor and note the 
message, and then see if they can reproduce it themselves.

Hate.

-- 
Much of the propaganda that passes for news in our own society is given 
to immobilising and pacifying people and diverting them from the idea 
that they can confront power. -- John Pilger

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