*&%$#@! on earth is a Fish Bicycle?
Fish Bicycle:
A Fish Bicycle is just that. A bicycle for a fish.
"But a fish doesn't need a bicycle!" you say?
- Exactly! -
A Fish does not need a bicycle. The idea of a fish needing a bicycle is beyond humorous to the point of gosh darn absurdity.
The term is used in many circles to describe something that is just plain not needed... not yesterday, not now, not ever.
As a developer you may have had a client ask for a Fish Bicycle. They insisted on one of those huge 6 paragraph legal footnotes on every page of a site and every email, or that data get saved to 5 redundant databases "just to be sure".
Did they need it? of course not... it was a Fish Bicycle.
So, what's the Fish Bicycle in Internet Explorer you ask? Ah ha! We're about to find out... but not so fast.
A Fish Bicycle in programming is when you need to "give a fish a bicycle" in order to workaround a bug.
For example: If you had to add an <input/> tag to the <head/> of a page in order to add a <div/> to the <body/>, that would be a Fish Bicycle. The body tag shouldn't have any issue adding a div, and the head tag certainly doesn't need an input tag.
Lets see if you can figure it out first! Here's a few clues.
- It happens in all versions of IE, including IE8 Beta 2
- It is definitely a bug, no question of that
- It isn't a bug already reported on Web Bug Track
- It is a JavaScript issue
- Oct. 4 - New Tip! It isn't related to any element in the <body/>
- Nov. 6 - New Tip! It involves popup windows
- {tip coming...}
Got an idea? Need more info? Ask away in the comments! I'll publish a full writeup in a few days but I want to see if any of the readers can guess it first.
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