Internet Explorer 6 Needs to Go Away
Notice something new? The 2009 version of Mindless Chatter hit the internet late last night. It’s been in the works for a number of weeks and has gone through a number of evolutions that resulted with what you see today.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been testing the design in a number of browsers to see how it looks. I stuck to Webkit (see Safari) and Gecko (see Firefox) based browsers. I did not test on Internet Explorer. Today I decided to render a few screenshots to see just how bad it looks. Follow along, if you will, a tour of how different web browsers render the exact same page.
Safari 3.2.1 (2008)
Camino 1.6.5 (2008)
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 (2008)
Internet Explorer 7 (2007)
Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
The worst is obviously Internet Explorer 6. It’s a piece of garbage yet still roughly 20% of the internet is using it. People, wake up! It’s now nearly 8 years old and there are two newer versions. IE7 handles the page, and web standards, much better than IE6 and the IE8 Beta is exactly what a browser should be.
If you’re still using Internet Explorer 6, it’s time to upgrade. If you can’t do it, get your IT department to do it for you and if even that isn’t possible, at least start using something else, like Firefox or Safari. You’ll realize how much better the internet is once you stop using a nine year old piece of software.
Internet Explorer screenshots were rendered using NetRenderer.
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12/13/08
12:56am
seven
It looks great in my browser… good job!
to seven
12/13/08
12:57am
seven
Oh, except the comment box is hanging off the page a little. I use the latest version of Firefox.
to seven
12/14/08
2:19pm
Justin
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll look into that.
to Justin
12/15/08
2:48am
Nick Tabick
Try adding the following to your stylesheet (and yes, I have the same issue). I tested it with an inline CSS editor, so it may or may not work for everything, but hopefully it all works out.
.comment-form textarea { width: 575px; }The width can be adjusted as necessary, but by eyeball, it appears to be about the right size.
Your theme does look pretty good, though, and it doesn’t completely blow up in Pocket IE. (Just mostly. Then again, what would you expect from the most notorious mobile browser of them all?)
And here’s what your homepage looks like as of this moment in two mobile browsers. (I have plenty more to get screenshots from if you need/want them).
Pocket IE on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
TorchMobile Iris (WebKit-based)
to Nick Tabick
12/15/08
9:46am
Justin
Thanks Nick. I’ll look at adding that later on today. I love the crap rendering in Pocket IE, that’s kind of awesome. The TorchMobile looks pretty good, about the same as Mobile Safari.
Also, way to get caught by Akismet for having to many links in the body of your comment.
to Justin
12/15/08
10:30am
Nick Tabick
I wasn’t picked up as spam by Akismet.
If you check Settings > Discussion from WP-Admin, you’ll notice the cute little option that controls how many links are required before a comment is defined as spam. It just so happens that the default is 2.
to Nick Tabick
12/15/08
10:38am
Nick Tabick
I suppose I should clarify a bit: The setting controls how many links are required before the comment is placed into the moderation queue, not the spam queue.
to Nick Tabick
12/15/08
10:47am
Justin
You’re right, I just assume everything held in moderation is done so by Akismet.
to Justin