Fixed: blog not displaying properly in Internet Explorer February 10, 2006
Posted by Andy Roberts in : tools , trackbackI had heard that there might have been a slight problem with the way that this blog displays in Internet Explorer, but I hadn’t got around to checking it for myself. I don’t know why, well I do, it’s because I so rarely sit at a Windows machine these days and if I do then the first thing I’ll do is to install firefox. But despite the rise of Mozilla based browsers, the percentage of people still browsing the web with Internet Explorer is still something ridiculously high like 80 or 90% plus. So it’s not really a potential readership that you want to be displaying a large empty white space to!
So I’m trying to come to terms with the idea that for several months, nobody took the step of commenting or emailing me about it until yesterday. Maybe the tiny but sophisticated readership prefer other browsers as well, maybe those who do use IE thought the empty space was deliberate, or made the not unreasonable assumption that I must have been aware of it. Also thinking back - could this be the explanation for why some visitors left me feedback about the links in my sidebar ? LOL.
The solution was to edit the skin stylesheet and change the number 765 to 766.
The lesson learned is always to check any new website with all the available combinations of platform, browser and screen resolution. That’s something I originally knew many years ago when applied to static webpage design but mistakenly hadn’t transferred across to the re-use of opensource tools such as Wordpress and the Green Marinée theme (which in this case is orange).
There’s also a salutory lesson in there somewhere about not relying too much on the idea that somebody will always let me know if something’s not working, and about listening to bad news.
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