{"id":341,"date":"2010-09-17T16:14:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T06:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-09-17T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T06:45:46","slug":"the-ie-logo-the-blue-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2010\/09\/the-ie-logo-the-blue-e\/","title":{"rendered":"The IE logo, the blue e"},"content":{"rendered":"

The IE Blog mar\u00adket\u00ading machine spews forth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We start\u00aded by think\u00ading about what the IE8 logo (and pri\u00ador IE logos) mean to our cus\u00adtomers. When we asked cus\u00adtomers what they think of when they see our logo, we heard pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal<\/em>, trust\u00aded<\/em>, and famil\u00adiar<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Empha\u00adsis not<\/em> mine.<\/p>\n

Adden\u00addum:<\/strong> some\u00adone posts:<\/p>\n

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Offtopic snarky com\u00adment: Remov\u00ading the progress bar from the sta\u00adtus bar is deranged and crim\u00adi\u00adnal. Please bring it back in the next release. This is why Win\u00addows XP and IE8 was last good pieces of soft\u00adware. Microsoft removes fea\u00adtures like a fad. What a com\u00adplete joke IE9 UI is. Trad\u00ading fea\u00adtures for sake of min\u00adi\u00admal\u00adism. Sta\u00adtus bar can be turned on but it does\u00adn\u2019t have the progress bar. I feel like shoot\u00ading the GUI people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exact\u00adly how I feel about every browser\u2019s des\u00adper\u00adate attempts to shed every pix\u00adel of inter\u00adface<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mean\u00adwhile, inside the arti\u00adcle under the head\u00ading \u201cBlue e = Inter\u00adnet\u201d<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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[\u2026] The IE logo is well known as the way to the web. Inter\u00adnet caf\u00e9s around the world use the IE logo on their sig\u00adnage to invite peo\u00adple in. Some of our team\u00admates have snapped pho\u00adtos while pass\u00ading caf\u00e9s dur\u00ading their trav\u00adels. The IE logo is right on the front of the build\u00adings! It\u2019s always fun to see that to many peo\u00adple, the blue e means the Inter\u00adnet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The empha\u00adsis, this time, is def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly<\/em> mine.<\/p>\n

Some\u00adtimes I won\u00adder where cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions like Microsoft get employ\u00adees so stead\u00adfast\u00adly blind to the world out\u00adside the cor\u00adpo\u00adrate prod\u00aduct line. What kind of thought process gen\u00aduine\u00adly leads a per\u00adson to believe it\u2019s good<\/em> to encour\u00adage monop\u00ado\u00adlis\u00adtic con\u00adtrol of a mar\u00adket, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when his\u00adto\u00adry not five years gone tells a sto\u00adry of stag\u00adnat\u00aded inno\u00adva\u00adtion and crip\u00adpling com\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty prob\u00adlems? Hav\u00ading deliv\u00adered such an appalling sev\u00aden years of stag\u00adna\u00adtion to web devel\u00adop\u00aders world\u00adwide with IE6, maybe Microsoft should edu\u00adcate their mar\u00adket\u00ading depart\u00adment on that peri\u00adod so that they chose their words wise\u00adly instead of appear\u00ading as brain\u00adless cor\u00adpo\u00adrate blog\u00adging automa\u00adta blind to basic his\u00adto\u00adry and obliv\u00adi\u00adous to their tar\u00adget audi\u00adence\u2019s gen\u00ader\u00adal dis\u00adlike of their monop\u00ado\u00adlis\u00adtic tendencies.<\/p>\n

tldr;: Don\u2019t post about how great it is that you ran a monop\u00adoly to the peo\u00adple whose lives were adverse\u00adly affect\u00aded by it. Duh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The IE Blog mar\u00adket\u00ading machine spews forth: We start\u00aded by think\u00ading about what the IE8 logo (and pri\u00ador IE logos) mean to our cus\u00adtomers. When we asked cus\u00adtomers what they think of when they see our logo, we heard pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal, trust\u00aded, and famil\u00adiar. Empha\u00adsis not mine. Adden\u00addum: some\u00adone posts: Offtopic snarky com\u00adment: Remov\u00ading the progress bar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}