A few months ago I built my most recent computer and for the first time installed Windows XP 64-bit edition. Anyone who has done this knows it is kind of a pain. So much of my old software didn’t work, I even had to buy a different wireless networking card due to Airlink101′s ineptitude in driver updating.
This morning I was informed of an IE6 display issue on one of my sites, and I realized in horror that my odds of finding a standalone IE6 to run on my 64-bit platform were not good. Fortunately, after about a 45-minute search I did stumble upon a working browser, which you can download from evolt.org.
Well, the title is misleading. I did have to launch this website in three hours–and it was a pain–but I got to come back in and spend some time on friday cleaning up loose ends and filling in the details, which as I’ve come to realize, are the only thing that make the difference between good web design and websites that look like they were made in Microsoft Word by a non English speaking grandmother.