Thursday, November 02, 2006
Stupid IE CSS bug fixed...
Posted on Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:14:25 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)  Comments [0] | 
Categories: Blogging
Since I've become a total FireFox junky, I did not exactly do any really serious testing of my new blog skin with IE6. Turns out that there was a CSS issue where the left menu got stuck at the bottom of the page below all the posts.

It's this sort of thing which makes me really glad that I'm not a web designer.

It also hilights why the whole "browser war" is lame, and wastest coutless dollars of web design time. Since there is no way all the vendors/developers will build browsers which consistenly render html/css, the whole idea of having two (or more) browsers with serious market share is actually detrimental to designers. Of course you can get on your high horse, and say the Mozilla/FireFox renders it all "correctly", but the point is moot because sooo many people still use IE that you simply must handle that browser  - regardless of how "broken" it is.

One True browser
What is needed is "one true browser", and in some ways Flash fills this need. A Flash app will run/look the same on a Mac, PC, IE, Opera, FireFox, Linux - whatever. And that's the key to rapid development -ain't nothing rapid about messing around with the idiosyncracies of a whole bunch of browsers.

Anyhow, a little bit of cursing, and some love from the CSS section over at DynamicDrive, and all is well for the IE crowd.

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