IE FAIL, Fx FTW..
Yepp, I'm a sucker for abbreviations.. If I was to spell the title out properly, in case you're stuck in a pre-"extensive emoticon use" era, it would say "Internet Explorer is failing, Firefox For The Win" .. but it would actually mean something more in the lines of:
In other words: This blog will most likely look a little strange if you're browsing with Internet Explorer. And other browsers as well, for that matter. Maybe not so much right now, but it'll probably "get worse" in the future.. I'm not even going to bother checking the compatibility from now on.
I did however test my blog in different browsers @ BrowserShots, a free open-source online service that "makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers .. on different Operating Systems". It might take a while, if you want to test your site thoroughly, but it's quite interesting. Some of the results look really funny.. and it made my stats go sky high, compared to any other day - I think I need to do this more often..
Anyhoo, here are some of the results (browser/OS) for this blog, as far as I could tell from the screenshots:
WIN - Chrome 5.0.375.99/Win XP ; SeaMonkey 1.1.16/FreeBSD 7.1 ; Navigator 9.0.0.6/Win XP ; Safari 3.2.3/Mac OS X10.5 (Leopard) ; Opera 10.0/Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) ; Opera 8.54/Win XP
OK - Camino 2.0.3/Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
FAIL - MSIE (Explorer) 6.0 and 7.0/Win XP ; Avant 11.7/Win XP ; Iceape 3.6.3/Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) ; Netscape 8.1.3/Win XP ; Firefox 3.6/Win XP (which is weird, 'cause it worked just fine for me)
And, while on the subject of compatibility, I might as well point out that the blog is not optimized for a specific screen resolution. I alter between a 10.1" (resolution 1024 x 600) netbook and a 17" (resolution 1680x1050) laptop when I blog, but I wouldn't say it's optimized for either of them - definitely not the smaller one - so I'll just go with: the bigger the better! When it comes to screens, size does matter..
"Explorer SUCKS and keeps messing with all the changes I do to my blog,
just to make things more complicated than necessary.
Mozilla Firefox is a lot smarter and a hell of a lot more user friendly,
so I'm going back to using it and it alone."
My point - exactly..
In other words: This blog will most likely look a little strange if you're browsing with Internet Explorer. And other browsers as well, for that matter. Maybe not so much right now, but it'll probably "get worse" in the future.. I'm not even going to bother checking the compatibility from now on.
I did however test my blog in different browsers @ BrowserShots, a free open-source online service that "makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers .. on different Operating Systems". It might take a while, if you want to test your site thoroughly, but it's quite interesting. Some of the results look really funny.. and it made my stats go sky high, compared to any other day - I think I need to do this more often..
Anyhoo, here are some of the results (browser/OS) for this blog, as far as I could tell from the screenshots:
WIN - Chrome 5.0.375.99/Win XP ; SeaMonkey 1.1.16/FreeBSD 7.1 ; Navigator 9.0.0.6/Win XP ; Safari 3.2.3/Mac OS X10.5 (Leopard) ; Opera 10.0/Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) ; Opera 8.54/Win XP
OK - Camino 2.0.3/Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
FAIL - MSIE (Explorer) 6.0 and 7.0/Win XP ; Avant 11.7/Win XP ; Iceape 3.6.3/Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) ; Netscape 8.1.3/Win XP ; Firefox 3.6/Win XP (which is weird, 'cause it worked just fine for me)
The screenshot I got for MSIE 8.0/Win XP wasn't good enough to show me anything of value
- but I don't need it to tell you, it looks like bleh! Same goes for IE8.0/Win 7..
And, while on the subject of compatibility, I might as well point out that the blog is not optimized for a specific screen resolution. I alter between a 10.1" (resolution 1024 x 600) netbook and a 17" (resolution 1680x1050) laptop when I blog, but I wouldn't say it's optimized for either of them - definitely not the smaller one - so I'll just go with: the bigger the better! When it comes to screens, size does matter..
