It has just come to my attention that this site doesn’t display properly in Internet Explorer… something that I was unaware of (because I don’t use IE).
Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to fix this problem – all my CSS looks correct, and the page even renders properly in *shudder* FrontPage (which uses IE to render things). WTF?? Anyone who has any ideas, please, please let me know. This one has got me stumped!
Interestingly enough, in IE at home, my blog displays perfectly. In IE at work (under XP), it does not.
WTF???
Keithius, the computer guru, has been stumped?! No, I don’t believe that for a second. You’ll figure it out in due time. In the new design of my web site, the text boxes in the gust book appear yellow in some versions of Internet Explorer, but they appear as they should (white) in Netscape and FrontPage. I couldn’t figure it out either.
Its real simple:
IE is not standards compliant. Microsoft has ceased putting any sort of effort into updating the browser long ago.
This is probably a GOOD thing, as they have actually managed to take a bug or two out, without ten or twenty rushing to fill in the gap. Not to mention, when Microsoft decides what ought to be a new feature, its usually some spammy corporate interest that gets to decide whats the next big thing, instead of what the user actually wants.
What’s maddening about the non-standards compliance-ness of IE is not just that it IS non-compliant, but that there’s no source for learning WHAT standards (specifically) IE doesn’t handle correctly. If there was such a source, at least I’d be able to work around it. It drives me crazy trying to design a web site while not knowing what part of my code (probably something in CSS no doubt) is making IE croak. In the end, it falls to trial & error – make a change, view it in IE, see if it looks OK.
In the end I think I’ve gotten the site to look OK in IE – though I still don’t know how.
Of course, I’ve long known that IE isn’t standards compliant – that’s just another reason I use Firefox – and before there was Firefox, I used Mozilla. And before that, Netscape Navigator (version 4 – anyone remember that?).
Nevertheless, I still get raging mad when I think about it. That’s why I’ve decided to make this site “best viewed in Firefox,” as you can see by the links on the left. Screw IE – viva la Firefox!!!