October 2008 Archives

Okay, within the last few weeks, I came to a conclusion: a) while dog-old Safari version at the university boxes messes up the Avarthrel site rendering pretty badly, the new versions of webkit don't mess it up at all, so I have hope. b) I was under the impression that MSIE 7 was supposed to fix all bloody awful buggy CSS rendering crap, but no, it doesn't. God. Damn. It. If the CSS validator says I'm good to go, and the site looks just fine on the browsers I use, you would expect it to work perfectly in most recent versions of all major browsers, right? RIGHT? It's 2008, Microsoft! Goddamn it.

*sigh*
Okay, I'm all better now.

So, I just decided I'll try to support those browsers I have at hand, and the easiest fix to the rendering bugs is that I'll just refuse to serve any stylesheet at all to MSIE. I could tolerate buggy rendering in past, but better to have an ugly site than badly messed up site that you can't read at all due to various funky box rendering issues. I wish I had the time, energy and resources to debug the styles, I really do...

Failure to communicate, part 1: I just re-re-re-etc-submitted The Sweet Side of Death to Elfwood - okay, so I was not reading all of the instructions regarding image credits. I hope the thing will be published there, too, one day. I really do.

Failure to communicate, part 2: Tested the Avarthrel website in Opera, seems to be fine. Tested it in Midori (webkit-based browser), seems good. Yet: Tested it in proto-ancient version of Safari and lo! it blew up. Tested it in Internet Explorer 6 and words fail me. CSS sure is hard! I have no idea how the website works in IE7, but I sure hope it does better than it does in IE6. Regrettably, I'm not able to test the site too well in IE7 and I don't have the energy or inclination to make any hacks to support the bloody thing either. I can only really test it actively on Iceweasel/Firefox anyway... so here we go, I just went and added a Firefox download button on the page. =)