Right, are you wearing your flame-proof suit, Norman?
Norman Dunbar wrote:
I know exactly about this problem because my own web site at
http://qdosmsg.dunbar-it.co.uk has the same problem with IE but not
with anything else. (IE 9 does manage to display the pages properly
I
have to add.)
But IE9 does not work on Windows XP machines.
The affected web sites are using CSS and versions of IE that I have
tested on my old web site failed miserably, up as far as IE 8 Beta,
to
render the page correctly according to the CSS rules.
Well, I use IE8 and Firefox 3.6.16 and there are plenty of websites I
visit from time to time which fail to display as intended on one
browser or the other (mainly IE8 I hasten to add, though not always by
any means).
I have just spent an hour or two trying to figure out why a page on a
site I maintain for a local craft association failed to display
properly on Firefox - a table got its columns a bit scrambled. I am
not sure what the problem was - I redid the page in a slightly
different way and the problem eventually went away, but I didn't keep
a copy to examine why. Using comment markers in table cells MAY have
been the problem, but I am not sure.
My own web page doesn't display correctly using IE 6 and neither
does
the Quanta web page.
I am surprised anything displays correctly in IE6!
Quanta home page has consistently failed to display as intended on IE8
too (Dan and Keith are fed up of me complaining about it - it won't
get fixed before the move to the new hosts which should happen real
soon I hope).
It isn't just the Quanta home page that fails when using IE8 for me -
I have great difficulties with the Typo3 CMS when trying to edit the
pages via IE8. It is much easier (and seems to be faster, though that
is probably subjective) when using Firefox.
Gone are the days, thankfully, when you used to see web sites with
signs on them saying "best views in Internet Explorer", now you see
"Using IE? Shame. Why not get a proper browser that follows
standards
and you will enjoy this site all the more." (Or words to that
effect!)
While I would be the last person on this planet to stand up for
Micro$oft, the plain home truth is that the majority of Windows users
still use Internet Explorer of one version or another, despite its
"faults". To say that to your website visitors is laziness in many
ways, as you are failing to ensure your website works for the
majority. However, using modern web page editing software often
produces code which is very hard or impossible to study and recode by
hand, so this tends to become unavoidable sometimes.
Of course, I suspect if you add up all the users of Firefox, Chrome,
Safari and any other alternative browsers you may well find that the
sum total of the others adds up to more than the number of IEs. If all
the other browsers all display the pages correctly, your statement
then starts to be valid.
Rant over.
Dilwyn Jones
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