I looked at this site with Internet Explorer the other day for the first time in a long while, and I was horrified. The addition of the “Save the Internet” graphic messed with the left-hand margins and forced all the content to the bottom, the right-hand column had somehow grown to overflow its boundaries, the background colors in entry footers and blockquotes were vanishing (fixed using this trick), and my ultra-cool “SweetTitle” tool tips (the text that appears when you hover over a link) were generating a JavaScript error (fixed using this variation)! I am left wondering: Why didn’t anyone tell me!?
According to my web stats, Internet Explorer is the most commonly used browser for viewing my site, but not by much. Its 43.8% share is closely followed by Mozilla Firefox’s 42.6%.
Given that for the rest of the world the ratio is still something like 80% IE:10% FF, one of two things (or parts of both) may be skewing the field on my site.
First, is that I use Firefox exclusively and though I have configured my web stats package to ignore all my IP addresses, it might not be doing so for the browser stats. Second is that, apart from friends and family, the majority of my web traffic is coming from the Seattle Blogmob site and Technorati, members of whom are far likelier to use Firefox.
I have to remember to check things out with IE whenever I make a change to the templates. But if any of you Major Readers happen to notice something amiss with the site, please drop me a line.
Or start using Firefox already!
Comments
Well of the things you mention that are "wrong", I only noticed the content being forced to the bottom. So many people I know mess with their blog formatting often enough that I figured it was only temporary and that you knew about it. I forgot about the IE factor. Anyway, I'll be sure to let you know about any anomaly I notice in the future, but of course I'm not that observant.
Posted by: Liana Ottaviano | May 14, 2006 6:21 PM
I also noticed only the content being forced to the bottom, which it happens to be doing again right now.
Posted by: Bill | May 14, 2006 8:58 PM