MS Claims Fried Rubber Eggs

From the Microsoft Typography site's WEFT 3 Overview page:

Font support in Web pages

Microsoft pioneered font support in Web pages by including support for the FONT FACE tag in the very first version of Internet Explorer released in 1995.

Ha! That's hilarious.

Analogy for those non-web-developerish-minded: it's like all the dorky Microsoft kids put on their starched blue chef's caps and cooked up a big batch of rubbery fried eggs. No one will want them, but that doesn't stop the boys bouncing them around the office in delight as they gibber financial algorithms to each other wildly and plant dry, dry kisses on each other, claiming this new breed of inedible googlies are the next best things since sliced bread (and no, not just because they can be used as sliced bread) and that they, the creators, the MicroSoftMarvellous, will never be matched for originality and innovation.

Ten years on and the pile of rubber fried eggs is... well, still a pile of rubber fried eggs, rubber having particular age-resistant (and if it's MS-manufactured, use-resistant) qualities. Yet visit http://www.MS.com/rubberfriedeggs/history.aspx and you can still read up on the heady days of MS RFE's conception. See a grinning Gates shaking hands with a bespectacled, nervous-looking guy holding up a signed copy of MS RFE 3.1, circa 1884. (The caption's smudged... that may be a '9'.)

Heh. ;-)

Enough of my never-ending anti-Billy daydreams for today, much work to be done! Busy finishing off the backend to a site I'm developing for a local - sorry - THE local hotspot, thevineyard.com.au, plus Juxt have sent through some testing, five hours total for two separate projects, and my dog is clambering to be taken for a(nother) walk. (Spent an hour lying in Catani Gardens this morning, soaking up the sun and wishing that Magnus wasn't quite so ball-mad. Heavenly.)

And as per usual, I'm over-budget already on the first job above, actually halved my quote for them as (1) the owner has been a friend for about twelve years, and (2) it's a high-profile job. It's also a small job, and still a relatively good price. One can't whinge too much when one can say 'Stuff work!' and spend all day at the beach whenever one wants, can one?

Ciao for now, mon chers et ma cheries
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