Tuesday, October 03, 2006

todays rant - IE vs Firefox

[if you are not a techie, please KEEP READING anyways... i wrote it in the non-techiest language i could, and it's important if you surf the internet at all... which you obviously do, cuz you're reading this! lol]

if you read my blog, you know that i think internet explorer stinks - but i'm not an 'i hate all things microsoft' kind of person, so bear with me.

i have a blog that i made trial runs of my own templates (or my modified blogger templates) on, and i worked on one until it is darn near perfect, if i do say so myself. it obeys all the recommendations (recognized world wide) for standardizing how browsers display html/css coded web pages - according to 'tidy', one of the tools out there for assesing it, it has only 5 validation errors - which i cannot fix myself as they are part of blogger's own coding. blogger itself doesn't 'validate'. ....it's a three column template, and the center column narrows and widens with the size of the browser window.

here it is in firefox ... plain jane (it's just a template framework), but even spaced and perfectly balanced and obedient to the coding.

narrow: (click on image to enlarge)


wide: (click on image to enlarge)


now, here it is in Internet explorer... notice the background color of the text areas doesn't show up, the left sidebar is glue to the edge of the page, and the bottom of the center column is.... well, whacked:

(click on image to enlarge)



the web page design sucks, eh? no.... internet explorer sucks. and it makes life annoying for coders.

the folks over at microsoft *know* that their browser has rendering issues.... and they seem to like it that way, because their newest version of IE (which i haven't loaded, probably won't until i *have* to) hasn't dealt with it..... i saw one of the webpages i have that uses this template over at a friends house on the new IE... and it was horrible.

it irks me that they don't care about this.

aaarrrrggghhh.

so, get firefox - it's free. or check out the other free browsers over at browse happy.

use whatever you want, but i challenge you, if you are an IE user, to get off the bandwagon.
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