For those of you watching in black and white…
Posted by zakala on Aug 30, 2009 in Website News |
…we have now updated (downgraded?) the site to look and function as well as possible in Internet Explorer 6.
The site has been designed to current xhtml and css standards. Current versions of Mozilla based browsers like Firefox and Netscape will render the site perfectly. Internet Explorer version 6.x claims to be standards compliant but has many rendering bugs. We have attempted to implement work-arounds for those bugs.
Older browsers will not render the site correctly, and we would gently suggest that you upgrade your browsing experience with Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
I would just like to point out that the “we” in the last sentence means zakala, the rest of the band are less opinionated on the microsoft vs the world debate.
My apologies, the we does indeed refer to me.
However IE6 is not W3C standards compliant and has some noticeable rendering bugs, hence the extra six hours work required to make this site render in it. Check any text on HTML and CSS and the same point is noted again and again – develop for Firefox and then fix for IE6.
In case it is felt that I am biased against Microsoft, rather than IE6, in this matter I will add that the site renders correctly as written in IE7 and above.
It should also degrade correctly to text for anyone using a screen reader.