Who’s Got Standards?
It’s come to my attention that this Web site – which I think looks quite fetching, by the way – does not look attractive at all when viewed in old versions of Internet Explorer. It’s just fine when using the new IE7, which is much closer to being compliant with current Web-coding standards than its predecessors. The site also looks great in alternative browsers like Opera and Firefox, two programs that helped write the book on standards-compliance. But IE6? Alas, no. IE6 does nasty things to the sidebar and completely messes up certain other behaviors. In IE6 this site is, to use the vernacular, totally borked.
I’m going to study up on the arcane sub-field of Web development known as “IE hacks” — an array of tricks you can use to make IE6 (and IE 5 and IE4) behave properly — and with any luck, this site will someday look perfectly acceptable, even when viewed with an antiquated browser.
In the meantime, may I recommend one of the free downloads listed below? Any one of them is preferable to IE6. They’re more stable. They’re faster. They’re packed with many more features. They’re more standards-compliant. And most important, they are much, much more secure than IE6 could ever hope to be.
Check out one of them, or check out all of them. You won’t be sorry.
Tags: Blog, Firefox, Grumpy About IE, Opera, Technology, Web Browsers
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