Breakdown of my blog visitors by browser, according to StatCounter:
| 37.00% | Firefox 2.0.0 |
| 23.00% | MSIE 6.0 |
| 16.00% | MSIE 7.0 |
| 11.00% | Safari 1.2 |
| 6.00% | Firefox 1.5.0 |
| 2.00% | Firefox 1.0 |
| 2.00% | Mozilla 5.0 |
| 1.00% | Opera 9.21 |
| 1.00% | Opera 9.20 |
| 1.00% | Opera 9.00 |
So I don’t feel too terrible about feeding IE a stripped-down version, due to One True Layout problems.
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heh. personally, if i had time, i’d ditch that john and holly box model. i’ve never gotten that sucker to work like they say it does. and it was easy to ditch it since the patterns they used to display that model…. oiy. made me want to lose my cookies.
in related tangent, the scope of the project i’m on included dev’ing for IE and FF, with 95% of their users on IE. We released the first site, only to find that the head honcho is a mac user — safari. heh. heh. heh. now, being a small freelancer, i’d always tried to dev for as much as possible and use that as a selling point.
today, the pm gets the bright idea that, since there’s only one machine to test safari, we should download safari beta for win on our machines and test that way. because, doncha know, safari on a windows box is gonna display like safari on a mac.
*snort*
Well, I could do that, but I really like using the One True Layout! Argh… I guess I could break down and use a background image to “fake” equal height columns, but the purist in me would rather not. I mean, really, fuck IE!
oooo oooo oooo. I have a fix for that, to force it to display. The one we use, normally, uses a negative bottom margin of like 1000. i’ll look it up. the other one is one i learned on the site i’m developing now but it may *cringe* use javascript. don’t know how much of a purist you are about that. :)
it cracks me up, at work, how we’re doing all this code optimization. tiniest little things — which is fine by me b/c it’s good code practice. but, in order to get the gew gaw features that make marketing’s panties wet, there’s a ton of javascript. had to laugh the other day when the requirements doc asked for a select drop down box for sorting by price, year, date, etc. — in addition to the PHP/DHTML ones we’re making. reason being, that some users don’t have javascript. oh ferchrisake, the entire navigation structures to get from page to page requires javascript to work. i’m thinking that they wouldn’t have gotten this far in their search efforts without javascript. so, WTF?
Yeah I’m using a negative bottom margin… view my stylesheet, it’s probably the “fix” you’re talking about.
I think the problem is actually not to do w/ the OTL itself, but something in the innards. If I cared more and/or had more time, I’d try to figure out exactly what’s causing it.
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