April 14, 2004
Sadistic Tendencies
Posted by nerdling | April 14, 2004 09:49 AM
Trying to design a site and a blog that will appear somewhat the same across browsers and operating systems is a pain in the ass. The new redesign looks great in IE 5+ and absolutely wretched in Safari (my browser of choice), since apparently CSS compatibility is still an elective thing. I won't even discuss Netscape because it is, for most intents and purposes, useless.
Further, I keep my screen resolution at 1024 x 768 or higher at all times, but I feel obliged to design for 800 x 600 for those people who don't want to scroll sideways to see everything. The basic gist of this rant is that designing for the web sucks when you are trying to make one thing that is compatible with a thousand different quirky variables.
Why can't we all just agree to author for 1024 x 768 as a minimum screen resolution using CSS2 and XHTML 1.0? Why can't we force all software developers to make browsers that support those languages? Why, why, why?
I'm done whining now, and yes, I know the world will never have a complete, unifying web standard, or at least not for a long time. But a girl can dream, can't she?
Feel free to report bugs here. I'll be putting up a new design shortly, but this one will have to suffice for now. Happy Spring!
Safari is also my browser of choice, and I've had the opposite problem: My site looks great when I view it in Safari, but when I see a friend looking on in IE, it looks plain, badly spaced, and awful.
So, I feel your pain. I like the new colors, very sophisticated.
Posted by: scotty at April 16, 2004 11:14 AM
