by NeoThermic » Fri, 01 2005 Apr 20:34:38
... a post in my blog!
No seriosuly, I don't quite get the point of april fools. Yeah, you trick someone, but why do it today? If you want to pull a prank, theres an avarage of 364 other days of the year to do so, so why do it today?
I'll admit, some of the fools have been good (Wikipedias amongst the best), but some are just stupid (case in hand, slashdot's homepage).
Some people even went out of their way to make the pages appear inversed to all IE users. To me thats excessive, and quite frankly you're annoying a percentage of your userbase using stupid tricks. A far better one would be just to make your pages XHTML 1.1 valid and send the content-type as application/xhtml+xml if you really want to screw over IE users.
Anyway. Over to you lot. Whats the best April 1st prank you've pullled or seen?
... a post in my blog!
No seriosuly, I don't quite get the point of april fools. Yeah, you trick someone, but why do it today? If you want to pull a prank, theres an avarage of 364 other days of the year to do so, so why do it today?
I'll admit, some of the fools have been good (Wikipedias amongst the best), but some are just stupid (case in hand, slashdot's homepage).
Some people even went out of their way to make the pages appear inversed to all IE users. To me thats excessive, and quite frankly you're annoying a percentage of your userbase using stupid tricks. A far better one would be just to make your pages XHTML 1.1 valid and send the content-type as application/xhtml+xml if you really want to screw over IE users.
Anyway. Over to you lot. Whats the best April 1st prank you've pullled or seen?