Sunday, 8 April 2007

Broken IE

I thought I had fixed this before, but as I was checking my site in Internet Explorer 6 yesterday, to my horror I realised that the fluid design is largely broken in that browser. I frantically put together some browser fixes in the CSS, but it looks like IE cannot handle a fluid design with iFrames, which I have to use for Blogger to display correctly in my page. So until I get some PHP hosting, IE users will see the page as mostly static.

This once again demonstrates the awkward non-standardisation of IE and the lengths a designer must go to ensure a working page in all browsers. Simple and standard code is nice, but you can't help but make it bloated when you have to include so many fixes just because browsers display things differently. There really isn't a way around it without having pages that appear broken in other browsers.

I think this website says it all...

1 comment:

Darfuria said...

Argh, bloody IE, I hate it. Interesting link though.