I just checked the site’s stats on browser share. When I was creating the re-build here at the office with IE, it looked great. I made a lot of adjustments trying to get some things to go where I wanted them and had many, many adjustments not show any visible changes to the page.
I got home and was horrified to see the layout with Firefox 1.5.รย I was embarrassed that 38% of my audience was viewing it that way. What would they think? Surely, it was something like: “That idiot sure doesn’t know anything about CSS!” I would attribute that fear to some of my personal issues to bring up with my shrink, but I am still embarrassed.
I looked at the original template that I started with, and it displays fine in Firefox, so apparently some of my tweaks that didn’t make a change in IE affected the “trueness” of the code for other browsers.
Is there a way to avoid this in the future, or to just plain fix it the way it is? I consulted CSS sites frequently to make things do what I wanted. It didn’t work out very nicely, though.
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