IE Sucks
August 12th, 2006 - 3:11 am
Well I would have the new site design up right this minute, if it weren’t for the fact that Internet Explorer sucks donkey balls. I built the things using Firefox and Safari to verify that it looked right … you know, browsers that follow web standards … and so didn’t notice until I checked it on Lin’s computer that obviously IE screws it all up. I’m pretty livid at the moment, mostly because I don’t know how to fix it. The menu items and search bar at the top of the page are mostly hidden below the header image, and the sidebar has slid down below all the posts. Gods, how I HATE Internet Explorer. How valid XHTML and valid CSS can screw up so badly in a modern browser, I don’t know. Oh yeah, it’s Microsnot. Standards? They don’t need no stinking standards! Stupid IE. 
I’m going to try to figure out how to fix this problem, but not this weekend … I don’t think. This really upsets me greatly. I finally had it far enough along that I could put it up and build the rest when I had time to work on it, and I love the new design. Since you aren’t going to get a chance to see the design ON the web site, here’s a sneak peak of what I have been working on the last few days.
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5 Responses to “IE Sucks”
Despite my best efforts, this Word Press blog of mine - though validating as XHTML with CSS that is up to snuff, fails to display properly in Firefox - though IE 7 has no problem with or Opera either… go figure.
Good luck.
It’s almost impossible to get a web site looking exactly the same in every browser without doing a browser redirect and having CSS for each of them. That’s just more hassle than I care to put myself through. A person should be able to design a site and have it validate and every browser should then see it as intended. It’s crazy that it doesn’t work this way.
I’m always so glad when I find the one stupid thing causing the problem and work around it. Then I spend the next year just reworking the same template rather than trying something new for fear of having to deal with problems all over again.
Good luck with yours too. What it looks like to me is maybe you are having a similar problem to the one I had with some browsers looking at padding and margins differently. Wish I could help, but all I did was go through the CSS and change all the padding and margins one at a time and preview until I hit on one that helped. Sucky way to have to do things.
I feel your pain. Testing a new design (that renders fine in good browsers) in IE can feel like when an ex you don’t want to see shows up at your birthday party. As in, everything’s fine, everybody’s happy, and then… trouble. ;-) A real buzzkill.
The first time you see what IE’s engine is doing to your good markup can really suck the wind out of your sails. Just deal with it; there’s not much choice I guess. :-(
Good luck!
“How valid XHTML and valid CSS can screw up so badly in a modern browser, I don’t know”
Your first mistake (and a very common one) was confusing IE with a modern browser. It’s not had an update (apart from the gazillion security patches) for 5 years.
Dont go poluting your CSS files with hacks to get it working in IE though, use conditional stylesheets and keep your code clean and pure
I was reading up on using conditional stylesheets, and that does seem the way to go, and right at the top of the one for IE is going to be a banner telling them to get a REAL browser.