I have spent a significant amount of time fighting a CSS bug that only happens in Internet Explorer. It's not a bug that is hard to notice either, rather it has completely broken my page from top to bottom and renders a nasty display when using IE. It works flawlessly in every other browser that I've tried:
- FireFox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
- Chrome - http://www.google.com/chrome/
- Safari - http://www.apple.com/safari/
- Opera - http://www.opera.com/
Unfortunately our users are predominantly IE users, which means I have to fix the problem. I don't mind fixing the problem. However, I'm noticing that most all of my problems are directly related to our IE 6/7/8 users. I never use IE anymore, and it's because of crap like this. Perhaps I'm so bias because I am a web developer. What makes IE so special anyway!? I understand "backward compatibility", but damn...
I wish I could just put a banner at the top of my page when the user is using IE. Something like:
You're using an antique, dinosaur of a browser. Please open this page with any other browser on the market for best results.
3 comments:
I'll fix it for you for 267 pints of Guinness
Google Chrome Frame, let your users use IE but run your site in a real browser :)
James - That looks sweet. Hadn't heard about it. I've been doing some HTML 5 learning and this get's me excited. :)
Ben - Deal!
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