I was very pleased with myself. After some initial, desperately-needed help with putting the SoG design onto the new theme, I spent the entire weekend working out the bugs and making it look right. I checked it in Firefox. Looks good. I checked it in Safari. Looks good. All I needed to do was get to work today and check Internet Explorer.
When it comes to web design, IE has always been a bane, and this time is no different. I’ll try to work out the bugs, but allow me to recommend Firefox (click here) to my readers who use a PC. It’s a much better browser than IE, and SoG is working great in it!
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I’ve read this sort of recommendation before. Apart from web design (which I don’t do – I just pick designs from predefined templates for my blog), what are the advantages of switching to Firefox for a PC user? Thanks.
The main reason most switch to Firefox is because it’s more secure than IE.
Other reasons are that it supports tabbed browsing (which rocks) and has a list of super-cool mega-awesome plugins and addons (like Full Screen Homestar Runner) which make your internet experience more fun.
Yay! Under the old theme I had to shift out of Firefox to IE to view some themes here, b/c extensive comment threads didn’t render properly in FF. Now they do. I can go back to ignoring that “Show this page in IE” extension….
Yes, I was going for that! I got so annoyed every time a thread got long and I couldn’t view it in IE.
Firefox is also much more secure than IE, has many more add ons than IE, & is very tiny in terms of space used on your hard drive compared to behemoth IE. Most everything will load on it nowadays, except, of course, certain MSN & Windows dedicated pages. Since I switched to Firefox a few years back, I have rarely, if ever, used IE.
The problem with IE (or with Microsoft over all) is that it doesn’t follow standards — which Firefox, Safari and Opera do.
This is brilliant! I’ve been using Firefox for a while, but I’ve also had the usual problems with long threads. Now I’ve made Firefox my standard browser and I’m very pleased with it.
I mostly agree, but Mozilla still has trouble with post titles such as “Hog’s Head PubCast #32″.
I’m trying a test again
I long ago joined the “I hate IE” club. Last Fall I was helping some of the teens in my church work on a web site for the youth group. We settled on a design that we liked, but we couldn’t come up with code that worked for both IE and Firefox. The kid who was helping me was an IE user and saw no reason to tweak the code to make it work in Firefox. This has been my experience, though, that often if it works perfectly in Firefox, there’s something “off” in IE, or vice versa. I much prefer Firefox, but it’s hard to argue with the huge majority that IE still has. I don’t know if we’ll ever get everyone to switch. Then again, I don’t know why everyone doesn’t switch. Microsoft has pretty much abandoned IE. They don’t support a version of it for the Mac anymore, they take forever fixing security problems or just totally ignore them — I could go on and on. A Microsoft employee told me plainly that Microsoft doesn’t care about IE anymore. They feel they won the browser war and now they don’t care about a program they give away for free anyway.
Yeah, my only concern at the moment is that because the majority use IE, the odd IE bugs (like the banner not fitting quite right in the header area) will be a turn-off. I hope I can tweak it to make it right.
The old theme worked well overall in both IE and Firefox, but Firefox kept experiencing those issues when comment threads got long.
Travis, still not too much progress with the images. Next week will the first week I don’t have a major assignment due. So I will get some sketches up for you then. I have some scenes in mind that I want to depict. Can not wait to get started on this. I’ve been meaning to do HP art for quite some time now.
I cannot seem to get the RSS feeds to work on Firefox.
Can anyone help me?
Matthew