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The Death of IE (webcomic)

Alvaro Montoro on June 15, 2022

I have been publishing a webcomic for four months: a comic about CSS (and web development) without images, all coded in CSS and HTML. And I’ve had ...

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Andrew Bone • Jun 16 '22 • Edited

Firefox didn't get an invite to the party 😢

Alvaro Montoro • Jun 16 '22

The browser logos are coded using a single HTML element and CSS. I have to admit I haven't figured out how to do the Firefox logo and that's why it's not there 😳

I have an idea for a comic strip where the browsers talk about how Firefox is never in the comic strip because the author (me) is terrible at drawing and doesn't know how to draw the Firefox logo (which unfortunately is true... For now)

Andrew Bone • Jun 16 '22

I suspected that might be the case 😉

Alvaro Montoro • Jun 16 '22

I have many others and I have a mini version of Firefox, but i need to polish it

Crystal RainSlide • Jul 4 '22

design.firefox.com/photon/visuals/...

Tiago Rangel • Dec 27 '22

Yeah and Edge also didn't.

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Jun 16 '22

Very, very cool.

Now where can I find a third party offering LTS on IE????????

Stephanie Handsteiner • Jun 16 '22

No need, MSFT is doing that themselves, considering Edge has IE Mode, which is just loading Edge with iexplorer.exe.

Abhinav Kulshreshtha • Jun 16 '22

IE is part of OS and share many dll files, they will continue to get support and security fixes,

Corporate clients can still pay to get support for IE. My friend is working for a client account in canada and their application still runs on cobol and asp, He tells me that his clients have paid microsoft for extended support of IE for themselves.

Alvaro Montoro • Jun 16 '22

😲

Tawhid • Jun 16 '22

Strange and surreal, right?

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Jun 16 '22

Oh great, not dead then... :) I can almost hear those torturers approaching!

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳 • Jun 16 '22

Internet explorer is my first browser when I have started using computer, but from last 4 years I am using Firefox browser with uduntu os which works beyond my expectations. Thanks for that mozilla developers 🙏🙏🤗🤞

Tawhid • Jun 16 '22

It's *Ubuntu

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳 • Jun 16 '22

Oh yes 🤗 thanks for correction 🙏

York • Jun 16 '22

IE: Is it time to go ?
Death: Yes

Alvaro Montoro • Jun 16 '22 • Edited

IE: *buffering*
Death: ......

Nir • Jun 16 '22

In the Web jungle the mighty Web jungle the IE sleeps tonight

Arun Kumar • Jun 20 '22

this just made my day thanks

Codeitdoc7 • Jun 16 '22

✨IE will always be alive in meta

avin-kavish • Jul 7 '22

How do you "code" web comics?

Alvaro Montoro • Jul 7 '22

With patience ☺️😹

I share the process on YouTube (for some of them). For example:

youtu.be/KX8hr2QksXA
youtu.be/Hme50KUMqZY
youtu.be/icKWKEcsAIE
youtu.be/i_B6LI2fq2Y

Socialmediaguide • Jul 7 '22

Nice........ :)

Herbivore Crocodilian • Jun 18 '22

This is Firefox erasure.

Alvaro Montoro • Jun 18 '22

Funny thing, someone made the same comment when I shared on imgur. The reason why Firefox is not there is because the logos are coded with a single div and I haven't figured out how to do Firefox logo yet... I even thought about making a comic with the browser logos poking fun at me for not being good enough to draw Firefox.