Browser Wars- will they ever end?
Jesus, can’t we all just get along?
I installed Opera, Flock, and Safari along with my default Firefox 3 and IE8 installs to test how a site I’m doing for work would look, and it seems that the inconsistencies never fail to keep right on coming. Safari, the default Mac browser, won’t render hardly any css correctly, and won’t display a .png file as a background image. Opera won’t load all my images, no matter what I set the “load images” setting to. The difference between the two surprises the hell out of me, they used to have very similar rendering. IE and Firefox didn’t disappoint, and Flock uses Firefox’s rendering engine (as does Netscape Navigator) so testing it just confirmed how well the site looked in a Firefox-based browser. IE 5 & 6 are still a problem though, as png transparency isn’t supported and their css support is spotty. My boss never updates his browser, and has been usin IE 6 for years, so when he saw how badly they rendered the new site’s logo and page backgrounds, he started flipping out and ordered the new site to be taken down, and the old one to be put back up. It’s been so long since this has seemed like a problem for me, that it came as a shock to me when he called and told me the site wasn’t working. So now I have more work to do tomorrow… sigh…