31.07.2006
If you are part of the statistical majority, you are using a so called webbrowser named Microsoft Internet Explorer, MSIE for short. Let me tell you straight away: It sucks. And if you are using it, by proxy you suck too.
Today I had the pleasure of inspecting that my site still looked good, even in MSIE, after I tweaked the CSS somewhat yesterday. MSIE may be crap, but it's evidently what people use. God knows why.
So, I loaded up my site in MSIE. And guess what? Anyone who has done any webdesign will already know what I found out: It looked like crap, buggy, all messed up and in short: not the way it was intended to look.
MSIE fails completely at the worlds most commonly used webdesign technique, so called CSS. Now that is rather impressive.
Making IE parse CSS correctly is akin to doing brain surgery while blindfolded and drunk. If it turns out OK it's due to completely random reasons, and no-one knows why.
However I am a complete and total pedant, and thus have postulated a bold theory:
"MSIE can be forced into behaving somewhat sane, as long as you have enough mental strenght to maintain your own sanity."
That being said, things should look OK now, even in MSIE. Consider my pedantry more powerful than MSIE and its bugs.
In the meantime, do yourself a favour, do the net a favour, do webdesigners everywhere a favour and get Mozilla Firefox instead.
Please, I beg you.