I’ve been churning away at this site since thursday. Every free moment has been thrown at it, and by now I’m pretty tired. But things are looking good. Really good in fact. I just need to fix one error before I hit the sack, and then there’s some very minor CSS polishing to be done tomorrow.
Or at least, that’s what I thought, until I booted up Internet Explorer.
Everything behaves exactly like it’s supposed to in Firefox and Safari. I had a minor problem with the navigation, but it only took me about 10 – 15 minutes to work around. But in Internet Explorer, it’s a whole other matter…
Currently I’m inclined to just leave the current ‘message’ that I’ve put in there for IE users and then blissfully ignore the problem. But I know that in the long run my pride will win out, and I’ll eventually wrestle it into submission. But my God, why does it have to be like this every single time?!
On an interesting note, this is pretty funny, and uplifting.
PS: Please by all means have a go at the site and report anything and everything that you can find (except validation errors, I’m getting to those later).
I know exactly what you mean. When I’m working on a new site design and when you boot up IE to check it’s look, it doesn’t look right at all. I’m using FireFox .9.2, so it’s looking awesome. I took a quick look through your code, it looks very clean. =)
Awesome work, as always. :D
I didnt realise you could do that if IE thing, I think I may have to borrow that.
I just booted IE on Mac OSX and that doesnt have the message but it also doesnt have any CSS styling – though I guess you know that.
Yes, I know about the MacIE CSS ‘problem’. It’s because I import the CSS the way I do. But since I’ve been a nice little boy with my markup vs. my styling, the site actually works better that way in MacIE. At least until I can find the time to fix it. But right now that’s more or less the task with the lowest priority on my list.
yeah, i assumed so, and I hope most people on OSX dont use IE.
My only little niggle is that Id like full posts in the RSS rather than excerpts, i dont know if you can give people the choice in WP.
sorry for so many short posts – Maybe you should leave a not on the IE developers blog, im sure theyd appreciate it ;-)
Now this is a nice comment box design!
WHat comment moderation script you using? I aint been able to find one yet: (
I’m probably not testing hard enough…but i’m running IE, and except I can’t can’t catch the explanatory words…you know the ones underlined in ….….…. …, it works perfectly for me…dunno if you tweeked something, or i’m lucky but everythings looks fine from where i’m sitting.
Oh, btw I see you changed the comments page, so you can’t post without an e-mail: is it possible to change it so, the e-mail isn’t posted, but if you input the e-mail in an page/something, you can change your post…for spellings-bees and the likes, or one posted because you misunderstood the subject.
I am drooling. Thanks, Michael.
And never, ever, ever open any page in IE 5.0 I fainted when I saw mine in IE 5.0.
Firing IE 6 (or 5.2 on mac) is just the first step.
I’ve been there, working at it in FF and IE at the same time, making sure they both understand the css, and then I think…..hang on, there’s IE 5 and 5.5 too…
…lemme just check…..it’ll on take a sec…..
.… faints
IE 5 / 5.5 are evil. Pure. Evil.
I tend to degrade them now rather than making it pixel perfect like in IE 6 and FF, but boy, just to even get wokring properly is pain in the behind.
We don’t need mozilla to win; competition is good, we just need Microsoft to get its bloody act together. I do take the point, that that’s about as likely as I don’t know… something not very likely. sigh
Just a quick note before I’m off to work:
Henrik: The mail address will never ever ever be posted publicly (as it says right above the email field). It is primarily for me, so that I can get into contact with people, and so that people can subscribe to comments via mail.
Michael, you need to change that idea of pride you have – Everyone here knows that you could make it work. And I think most people here agree that the proliferation of modern, standards compliant browsers is important.
I agree that IE doesn’t have to die – that it would be fine if they tried to compete on the right terms (trying to beat firefox in terms of standard compliance and modern features). Competition is healthy.
But even though MS are revving their engines, I don’t really believe they will live up to that growly muscle car engine sound unless they see their market share steadily declining.
So, Do as I command. You have good content – use that to give people an incentive to try firefox.
Well, essentially you’re right. And you know that I know that. But since this particular layout is shared with the Kubrick theme, I need to make sure that it’s gelente across all browsers…
Actually the borked layout when I look at the site with MyIE2 is at almost the perfect level of annoyance. Annoying enough for me to notice it (especially taking in mind the aesethetic qualities of this site) and shut down MyIE2 and fire up Firefox, but not annoying enough for the site to be completley broken.
i.e.: It’s annoying enough for me to be annoyed at Microsoft, but not annoying enough for me to be annoyed with you. Leave it as is, go on, give in to the fire. :)
Heh, yeah I had thought of that. But again, my pride will definitly want to change it over the long run :)