Back in 2002 or 2003, when Internet Explorer reigned at the undisputed leader in browser market share, I was very outspoken over the need to support all browsers - even those with only 5% share or less. I argued about the need to provide a consistent experience for all users, regardless of what browser or version they decide (or as forced) to use. This ideology was all the easier to adopt considering how had market share at the time - I feel as though my strong feelings were just as much about not idly allowing the “evil” corporate browser to swallow even more share by helping make it the de-facto browser on the internet. Fast forward 5+ years and oh, how the tables are turning. A new generation is jumping online and they’re not just blindly clicking the blue ‘e’ on their desktop. Firefox 3 shattered the record for most downloads and, according to some metrics, is passing up 20% global market share and well above 40% in some European countries. The underdog is now the up-and-comer.
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Well, everyone was busy talking about the MacBook Air, so I decided not to. You will not find one article on said laptop in this list. You’re welcome.
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I am still sick and am desperately trying to get better. Once again, I am late on the weekly links, my apologies. Hopefully this virus will be purged from my system soon so I can get back to my normal schedule.
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Just like every other bloke out there that has a blog, I’ve had my problems with comment spam. What you might not know though is that your spam may be giving you a false sense of who is visiting your site.
I regularly check my site logs to see who is coming to my site. I am especially interested in browser statistics - not only for this site, but in general as well. Last month, I noticed that the segment of visitors using Internet Explorer had steadily risen to around 45 to 50 percent. I found this to be a strange occurance since I was usually seeing a vast majority of Firefox users coming to my site with the occasional Safari boom when I’d post to Pixelsurgeon, Newstoday and Artdorks.
It wasn’t just a coincidence that during that same timespan, I was seeing my highest concentration of blog spam to date. I would sometimes get over 100 comment notifications that were spam and that doesn’t count the number that were actually blocked by my spam filters.
I’ve been working on the finishing touches to the revamped Kacyra Foundation site (the old version is still currently live) but I’ve run into small issues along with way which has slowed things down now and then.
The latest issue that was recently resolved was a margin problem I was having in IE5.
Here was the bug:
After figuring out where the problem was, it wasn’t much a of problem to resolve with negative margins and a little sprinkle of the Box Model Hack. I still have to test it on the Mac when I get home, but I don’t think it’ll be a problem.
Why is this even brought up on my blog? After looking through the CSS file I put together, I noticed there were a ridiculous amount of conditions and hacks throughout each style that it seemed as though I was spending more time patching the styles to work across browsers than actually creating the initial style attributes. I know the standards movement isn’t getting much resistance from the designer/developers, but I have to think that the average-Joe viewer would like to have sites work properly no matter what browser they choose to view a site with. If they knew more about the process of making everything work on the web, I truly feel they’d voice their opinion with a little less ambivalence.
Obviously, Firefox is the hot topic in terms of standards-compliant browsers. However, Opera ain’t bad and Safari is quite good as well. Hell, IE6 is a dream compared to IE5. Hopefully, in a couple years, IE5 will go the way of NS4 and we won’t have to worry about whether or not the public decides to stand up for standards. Until then, I’ll be writing CSS that isn’t very fun to look at.
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