IE7 compatibility!??!! Onoes!
I just saw a really horrible thing… how my blog looks like with Internet Explorer 7!
(read more after the jump)
As you can see there is a little note at the bottom of my blog-header now showing the tested/recommended browsers.
I have tested my blog with 3 PCs, one laptop and my Asus EEE subnotebook and the result was:
Every thing looks fine with Firefox 2/3, Safari 3, Opera 9.x AND Internet Explorer 8 @ Vista x86,x64, XP x86, OSX 10.5 (@ OSX I could only check Firefox, Opera and Safari of course) and Ubuntu x64 with different resolutions from 800×480 to 1680×1050.
BUT it does NOT look good with IE7
the sidebar texts are somewhere on the far right side, font-sizes are not shown proberly and so on… but only on the “main”-page? wtf?
@ all IE 7 users (if there are still a few left xD): pls use another browser if you don’t want to see this display failures;
I’m sry but it don’t know why it doesn’t work, but if someone has an idea pls feel free to contact me or write a comment.
Wayne? IE-User haben eh alle keine Ahnung und einen kleinen Penis. Don’t blame me.. das ist wissenschaftlich bewiesen.
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BRITANNIA
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it’s not your fault, older versions of IE tend to ignore the css standards protocol. webdesigners usually have to do “cross browser compatibility” for the sake of IE users. i guess when wordpress.com added this theme for their users to use, they didn’t check it’s compatibility.
Yeah I haerd about the css-ignore probleme, but I thought IE 7 doesn’t have this problems…
and I think I don’t change my design just because of that because IE 8 doesn’t have this problems with my theme and the final version will be out at the end of the year.
don’t change your design (oh noes here i go again), css design is about scalability. it’s supposed to “degrade gracefully” as support is lowered. example:
css3 has a round borders property, which is supported by the latest browsers, but if you go backwards in versions, this vanishes to use just straight sharp-cornered borders.
so in theory, a user is “rewarded” for getting the latest browsers., but using the older ones shouldn’t detract the experience too much.
lesson: don’t design for specific browsers, at least cover the major ones.
ok thx, and btw I tried it again with the same systems and now it works oO, cange in the theme maybe? who knows?
and yeah I think I cover the major browsers now^^
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