There are some people who really shouldn't be allowed to have their own website. Sure, there's the people who select horrendous colours (like red on green), or use frames, but I'm talking about an elite class here. Or so they think they are.
For some reason, I stumbled across "afv-13's" blog. In the top-right hand corner is a small notice warning visitors that Internet Explorer users won't see the site as intended.
Clearly the owner of this site has gone to the trouble of testing his website in more than one browser -- but why stop there? Warning such as these will only serve to confuse visitors who are less computer-literate, and piss off corporate users.
Yes, that's right. Like it or not, the reality is that Internet Explorer is by far the most used web browser in the corporate environment. And most users don't have the ability or the power to change this.
Quit being so up yourself. Restricting your website to non-IE browsers is WORSE than naive authors who only test their websites in IE.
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All valid points ... but this site is not intended for commercial use, its a personal blog. So as a forum to express views and opinions isn't it valid to express an adverse opinion of IE?
If it was a commercial site, it would be suicide to not design it to display correctly for IE but this guy probably doesn't care if IE users can't read their blog.... as he puts it "If you are using IE, please consider using a propper browser such as Firefox or Opera."
So it may be "up yourself" but if you can't be pretentious on your own blog where the vast majority of people have no idea who you are .. then where can you be :-)
Hi nemesis,
In my own defence I would like to make the following 2 statements:
1. 87% of visitors to my blog use Firefox, 4% use Safari and 2% Opera (thanks to Analytics) and as such I did not give IE much of a priority.
2. Last week I installed Internet Explorer through wine. It was only then that I could actually see the site through the eyes of an Internet Explorer user, instead of hearing from my girlfriend that it "looks funny".
3. At this point if you use IE you should know by now that it doesn't render pages like it should.
4. My blog is intended for friends and family and not people in a "corporate environment" who should be working and not reading blogs anyway.
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Since installing IE, it's helped me resolve a couple of issues, but I can't seem to figure out why the div's background colour doesn't show for the top block on the right or why the same code looks different when viewing something like the disclaimer vs. the frontpage.
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If you're going to say negative things about another person's site, it is only polite to drop the person a mail letting him/her know.
It's also pretty lame making the person have to register on your blog just to post a comment.
2 statements turned to 4 to improve readability :p
afv-13,
Regarding point #3 -- You'd be surprised. I've found far more sites that don't render properly (or don't render at all) in Firefox than I have for IE. The unfortunate reality is that most people who publish content on the web (I daren't call them "web developers") use tools like Dreamweaver or Frontpage, and test their pages only in IE.
RE: #4 -- fair point. I know the original post looked like it was singling out your blog, but it was more a last straw/camels back, having seen Explorer Destroyer a few days prior.
I had no idea it was "only polite" to drop someone an email when you say negative things about their site... Besides, clearly you were able to find this page through your referrer logs ;)
What I hate is websites that have a firefox/safari splashpage that prevent you from accessing the site (unless using IE). I understand that you designed your site for IE but atleast let me get into the site!!
And I agree with Donna and our new visitor, if the majority of your users use a standard's complaint browser then why should you go through the headaches of working with IE's shoddy css support.