So Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 was posted. And the Internet went crazy.
I think it’s time for a bit of frivolity, don’t you?
At a tiny company with a website:
Lemur 1: I just downloaded Internet Explorer 7! It’s the future!
Lemur 2: Awesome! Let’s check out our website!
Lemur 1: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Lemur 2: It’s broken! Oh no!
Lemur 1: We better call up our web designers! And yell at them!
At the tiny web company:
Lemur 3: Dude, we got an email from that tiny company. They say their site is broken in IE7.
Lemur 4: IE7? Gross!
Lemur 5: Seriously, dude. Tell ‘em the site is fine, it’s their browser that’s broken.
Lemur 4: Yeah, totally. That’ll stick it to Microsoft!
Lemur 3: Yeah! Fight the power!
At the tiny company with a website:
Lemur 1: Oh! The web designers say that our Internet Explorer is broken!
Lemur 2: Oh no! We better write to Microsoft right away! They need to fix this!
Lemur 1: ‘Dear Microsoft…’
Lemur 2: And make sure they get it right this time!
At Microsoft:
Lemur 6: That’s the 11-billionth email we’ve received about IE7 and websites!
Lemur 7: We’ve got to do something!
Lemur 8: But what can we do?
Lemurs: *thinking*
Lemurs: *thinking*
Lemurs: *thinking*
Lemur 6: <meta http-equiv=“X-UA-Compatible” content=“edge” />?
Lemur 7: Seriously?
Lemur 6: Why not?
Lemur 7: What do you guys think?
Lemurs: *shrug*
Lemur 8: Eh, let’s give it a shot.
Lemur 6: Awesome. Can I write about it to tell the Internet?
Lemur 8: Yeah, we better tell ‘em. Go ahead.
Lemur 6: Awesome! Hey, can I have a raise too?
Lemur 8: No.
Lemur 6: Aw nuts.
At A List Apart :
Lemur 9: Dude, check this out.
Lemur 10: Dude!
Lemur 9: Should we post it?
Lemur 10: Dude!
Lemur 11: It’s been a few weeks since we’ve had an Internet riot. Let’s go for it.
Lemur 10: Dude!
Lemur 9: Excellent.
Lemur 10: Dude!
At computer screens across the globe:
Lemurs: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Lemur 12: Actually, you kno—
Lemurs: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Lemur 13: But—
Lemurs: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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By Shaun | Jan 23, 07:40 PM
that’s the cute-funny-est thing i’ve seen in like… a month. even more if you don’t count LOLcats.
By katy lavallee | Jan 23, 11:31 PM
That hits the nail right on the head, as we say in Dutch.
By Rob Hofker | Jan 24, 07:31 AM
The blue hat detail is the cherry on the cake! :D
Very funny
By John Oxton | Jan 24, 08:43 AM
Brilliant Kate.
You need to do more of these!
MOAR LEMURZ!
By Tim Huegdon | Jan 24, 08:47 AM
You. Are. A. Genius!
By FatBusinessman | Jan 24, 08:55 AM
Who could wish for more? Cutting satire with Lemurs.. Thank you.
By George | Jan 24, 09:03 AM
Not laughed that hard for a long time, cheers Kate :-D
By Stuart Maynard-Keene | Jan 24, 09:04 AM
Genius.
Totally sums it all up.
By John A-P | Jan 24, 09:12 AM
Fantastic. Sums it all up nicely.
By Cyril Doussin | Jan 24, 09:14 AM
Gust got this link of off Christian Heilmann on Twitter, an excelent “account”, made my day :)
By Michael James | Jan 24, 09:21 AM
Snort!
Marvelous. Lemurs = Win.
By Matt Machell | Jan 24, 09:26 AM
I love it! Thanks for making my day! :-)
By Steve Fleischer | Jan 24, 09:40 AM
Kudos on the blue hat. Cracked me up!
By Andrew | Jan 24, 11:28 AM
Fanbloodytastic! :D
By Olly | Jan 24, 11:37 AM
That’s brought a smile to my face : ) Pure genius!
By Sam Hardacre | Jan 24, 11:40 AM
huh, really funny blog… i like it!
By Funny Pictures | Jan 24, 12:37 PM
So fab! Love the ALA photo
By Iolande | Jan 24, 01:10 PM
Truly, truly brilliant.
If lemurs explained things more often, maybe the world would understand more.
By Phil | Jan 24, 01:26 PM
Awesome. Just what this whole “controversy” needs…more monkey.
By Olivia | Jan 24, 02:08 PM
That made my day. :) Great post!
By Kyle Meyer | Jan 24, 02:09 PM
Easily the most brilliant post on the subject yet.
By Edward O'Connor | Jan 24, 02:58 PM
Got to love the Zeldman Lemur sporting the blue beanie!
By John Krutsch | Jan 24, 03:00 PM
That’s ludicrously funny. Yeah, the Zeldman beanie was the highlight.
By Justin Reese | Jan 24, 04:24 PM
You win. Everything. Not just all of the Internets: everything ever.
By Eric Meyer | Jan 24, 05:01 PM
OMG ROFL! I’m so glad this is the first site I went to this morning.
By Andrea | Jan 24, 05:23 PM
Wow, the blue hat is just too much. I can’t help but laugh every time I scroll back up and look at it. The internet riot is also a goodly amount of funny, just a little below the blue hat lemur.
If I wore a hat I’d take it off to you, as is you’ll have to settle for a thanks for the good laugh.
By Ben | Jan 24, 05:27 PM
Very funny – you missed a trick – I thought ALA stood for “A Lemur Apart”? ;-)
By Caz Mockett | Jan 24, 05:55 PM
Nice :)
By Dean Hachamovitch | Jan 24, 10:00 PM
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant. And look, you even got Dean Hachamovitch to agree. I’m impressed!
I think you might have hit on a good diplomacy tactic for future advocacy with Microsoft.
Bring in the blue beanied lemurs!
By Molly E. Holzschlag | Jan 24, 11:33 PM
This is perfect! Well done Kate – this is the best summary of everything to do with this…(and a good use of all those lemurs too!) ;)
By Matt Robin | Jan 25, 12:05 AM
LOOOOL
I’m still laughing :D
Well done.
By Bob | Jan 25, 12:26 AM
That is the best explaination of the issue I’ve heard so far. And the Zeldman hat is just too cute. Thanks!
By lee | Jan 25, 12:40 AM
ha ha brilliant… very original light spin on a hot topic. Great.
The poor little web company that couldn’t… :)
By Steven Clark | Jan 25, 01:34 AM
The real question here is: Why do you have so many stuffed Lemurs??
By Corey Dutson | Jan 25, 02:45 AM
ROTFLMAO. That is awesome and definitely hits the nail on the head!
By Ryan | Jan 25, 04:49 AM
Kate, excellent, I’m still laughing. Thanks a lot for this post and please do more such “frivolities” :o)
By MikoĊaj | Jan 25, 08:07 AM
LOL, hilarious! I love the blue hat detail too!
By Heinrich | Jan 25, 12:11 PM
Superb :) and much needed after reading all the rest
By Suzy | Jan 25, 02:10 PM
LOL…that’s a pretty good summation. Oh yeah, loved the hat.
By Ruth | Jan 25, 06:19 PM
wow – awesome – if only all internet conflicts could be summed up this way
By Grant | Jan 25, 09:30 PM
Awh! I like the cute little blue hat.
By effika | Jan 25, 11:08 PM
thats awesome!
By brwalias | Jan 26, 12:50 AM
Love it :o)
By Gary | Jan 26, 07:31 AM
Hilarious! I wonder about you having that many stuffed lemurs, though. Please say you purchased them all just for this. ;-)
By Bridget Stewart | Jan 26, 01:48 PM
Awesome, really awesome!
By Pieter | Jan 26, 11:31 PM
As lemur #9 (or maybe #10), may I say:
Dude!
By Erin Kissane | Jan 27, 03:32 AM
LOL! Love the blue beanie lemur :)
By Neil Ford | Jan 28, 12:20 AM
Cute. Best use of taxidermy on the web.
By Jason King | Jan 28, 08:54 AM
O.M.F.G. I should have NEVER read this while sitting quietly at the edge of the room working (after finishing a presentation — another speaker’s on the stage now)… I JUST about lost it really loudly. Too good—great work!
By Stephanie Sullivan | Jan 30, 05:09 PM
Meanwhile, a real-life lemur reacts: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1799458/
By Olly | Jan 31, 07:41 AM
Where did you get all those toy lemurs?
By timoni | Jan 31, 08:09 AM
I knew the lemurs were up to no good…
By Joe Lewis | Feb 1, 03:57 AM
Awesomeness. Really.
By WTL | Feb 2, 03:14 AM
Brilliant!
“That’ll stick it to Microsoft!”
By Excalo | Feb 8, 02:22 AM
Lemurlemurlemurlemur
lemurlemurlemurlemur
lemurlemurlemurlemur
website! website!
By Alex Vincent | Feb 9, 04:17 PM
Just one word…. Dude!
:)
- Neil.
By Neil C Ford | Feb 27, 06:09 PM
This is SO hilarious! Thanks so much for doing this. “All of the Internets”! LOL
By Vince Lim | Mar 4, 08:51 PM