Browser Issues
If any of you are experiencing technical issues with this website, please leave a comment on this post.
I just tested this site on a Windows 2000 machine with Internet Explorer 6, and none of the media shows up. I used to have access to a different Win2000/IE 6 machine, and everything showed up fine.
This site complies with the W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard. Your best bet is to use a browser that’s actually standards compliant, such as Firefox. I know some of you read this site at work (maybe not such a good idea!), so you don’t have control over which browser is on your machine. If there’s something obvious I can fix, I’ll do so, but I’m not going to break the site for the people who follow the rules just so I can accommodate Microsoft.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Hear hear!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:05 am
That reminds me of the loving pictures I pose for with my Apple IIc. I think I’m in love….with this blog. Mind if I add you to my humble blogroll? Ahh, if only I had known about such “fundie watch” sites earlier, I wouldn’t have felt so alone in my quest to utterly destroy them. Now I know and all is again right in the universe.
October 11th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Microsoft has a free VHD (updated quarterly) with use with the free Virtual PC that is basically a plain-Jane XP install with IE6, just for this kind of situation. It allows web developers to check compatibility with IE6 and IE7.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en
Incidently, if you changed “XHTML 1.0 Transitional” to “XHTML 1.0 Strict” IE7 will render differently (closer to “true” standards compliancy). FireFox and IE7 both fail standards tests pretty miserably, but IE7’s “backward compatibility” makes some things more apparent. Double edged sword. If IE7 was 100% standards compliant, many many websites (and CHM help files and HTML controls in any forms apps) would have been broken and that would have been BAD.
Pain in the ass, but I always code for IE7 first, then Firefox, then IE6, basically in order of market penetration. Of course I always test on Opera too, but it’s hardly needed because somehow those guys make things render perfect no matter what browser it’s “worked around” for! MS needs to buy the Opera rendering engine for IE8. I swear.
October 11th, 2007 at 10:31 am
XHTML 1.0 Transitional seems to be the Word Press default. Maybe that’s because I use deprecated commands such as _blank.
Firefox is the main browser people use to view this site (37%), followed by IE7 (22%).
Maybe MS finally got religion with IE7, but older versions were designed around a lot of MS-specific non-standard tags. I won’t support that.
I’ve never understood why it has taken so many years for the browser developers to implement the complete W3C standards. They’ve been in place for quite a while now.