Some readers have emailed that Internet Explorer does not seem willing
to display some graphics on this site. (It also offsets the calendar
archive, but that’s relatively minor.)
I have two reactions: First of all, the site renders correctly
under Netscape, Firefox, and Opera. Mac-centric
friends also reports it works under Safari, so this would make IE the
odd Bill Gates man out. But second, IE has an undeniable hugely
predominant market share, so I will bow to reality and attempt to wrestle
this highly irritating Gates-ian imposed hiccup to the ground.
In the meantime, take my advice (and that of Walt
Mossberg of the WSJ)
and just ditch IE once and for all. Face facts; IE is buggy, consummately
virus-prone and insecure, and loves pop-ups and spyware. Do you
need this on your desktop? IE is a perfect example of what monopolies
wittingly or unwittingly do to the marketplace: Suck all of the
"consumer surplus" out of it and appropriate it to themselves.
Redmond editorial over.
The reflective and nuanced "Adam Smith, Esq." will reappear
in the next post (assuming it has nothing to do with Microsoft).
