I was playing around with the styling of this page, as I do every other day or so, and I was stumped as to a certain rendering problem. Since I use Opera for my internet browser, I thought maybe if I load up the page in Internet Explorer, which most of you guys use, then it would be ok.
Well, it wasn't, but that wasn't my main problem. Recently I've added a couple of tags into the HTML code to help me style the page how I wanted it. Using Opera, these tags are read and styled, no problem (for instance, at the end of the last post I made up a tag <subliminal> to make a very light version of text show up). Well, IE just ignore tags that it doesn't know, so you never get to see my clever little subliminal message. Well, actually you see it loud and clear, rather than how I meant it.
Here's the difference:
IE:
Opera:
See what you are missing?!
Now I'm going to have to write in some font tags, which are a big no-no, but IE can understand them.
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You know, there just haven’t been enough comments around here lately, so I am going to start leaving a bunch, maybe under psuedonyms.
Did you know that the number in your post title is “78″? Is there a significance to this?
Et tu, Bil-le?
Whats up with the red bars? I was attracted to them. And they are confusing, because they have nothing to do with the subliminal message. Unless I’m missing something.
Why not set “subliminal” as a CSS class then use bil to get the effect that you want?
IE will probably render it differently than Opera, but it will still come close. (If you’re as picky as me, you’ll need to do more–check out the source of kmarx.com for details.)
Ah, this is why it pays to link to other bloggers with more technical know-how. Thanks for the tip, Tim, and thanks for coming by and reading!
What bothers me about this is simple. It would benefit everyone (those who develop the websites, those who develop the browsers, those who view the websites, people at the w3C) if the browsers would at least attempt to standardize how they handle some things. For example – no one is going to download IE just because it handles the tag differently (or not at all).
Unfortunately, it would benefit Microsoft if their browser was the only one people developed for (I guess. I don’t really see why, but they assure me there’s some value to being the dominant browser). And since they have, like, 90% market share, they have no impetus to standardize. As far as they’re concerned, let everyone conform to the MS standards.
I’m usually polite, but having wasted hours of my life trying to program things for the replaceable trash program Internet Explorer. I’ve seen others waste hours of their life (which are irreplaceable) fixing the mess that Microsoft has force fed to the masses for nearly the last decade. I’ve therefore come up with a very apt and descriptive phrase which I feel describes IE very well: replaceable trash. Feel free to quote me on this, and don’t forget to show people what we’re talking about. If you want to download some replaceable trash, you can do so here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx