IE doing odd things with Uberclok.com...
I remember the old days, when men were real men, women we real women, and furry things from Apha Centauri were...
Nevermind. The point is, my memory of the Internet (like many of you) reaches far back into the furthest reaches of time where Netscape was brand new, and all web pages had a grey background and used divider lines everywhere. It might not have been pretty, but at least it was actually CROSS PLATFORM! Nowadays you can't shake a stick without hitting a website that will only display properly on the Windows version of Internet Explorer (sometimes it even has to be the latest version.)
I'm sure Microsoft is salivating as they read this (for it's well known that the Uberblog is very high on the priority lists of M$ execs for monitoring) and they're probably wringing their hands at the progress they've made at making the entire Internet proprietary.
Which is why I find it ironic that the recent updates we did to the Uberclok website were not displaying properly in Internet Explorer, even though they looked fine in all other browsers. For the past 24 hours or so, all of our pages were showing a split splash graphic because of this change to our template code:
< src = " pic.jpg ">
< / t d >
< / t r >
instead of
< src = " pic.jpg "> < / t d >
< / t r >
Don't ask my why, but IE needs the /td tag on the same line as the image. Those of you who don't know HTML are probably starting to regret reading this post, but trust me when I tell you that this is a very stupid way for Internet Explorer to behave. Which probably shouldn't surprise me. In fact, I've just revealed to the world that we did some pretty crappy testing before releasing our website update.
Arg.
The point is, our site should look better now to you IE users. Please wear your tinfoil hats so we know who you are.
Nevermind. The point is, my memory of the Internet (like many of you) reaches far back into the furthest reaches of time where Netscape was brand new, and all web pages had a grey background and used divider lines everywhere. It might not have been pretty, but at least it was actually CROSS PLATFORM! Nowadays you can't shake a stick without hitting a website that will only display properly on the Windows version of Internet Explorer (sometimes it even has to be the latest version.)
I'm sure Microsoft is salivating as they read this (for it's well known that the Uberblog is very high on the priority lists of M$ execs for monitoring) and they're probably wringing their hands at the progress they've made at making the entire Internet proprietary.
Which is why I find it ironic that the recent updates we did to the Uberclok website were not displaying properly in Internet Explorer, even though they looked fine in all other browsers. For the past 24 hours or so, all of our pages were showing a split splash graphic because of this change to our template code:
< src = " pic.jpg ">
< / t d >
< / t r >
instead of
< src = " pic.jpg "> < / t d >
< / t r >
Don't ask my why, but IE needs the /td tag on the same line as the image. Those of you who don't know HTML are probably starting to regret reading this post, but trust me when I tell you that this is a very stupid way for Internet Explorer to behave. Which probably shouldn't surprise me. In fact, I've just revealed to the world that we did some pretty crappy testing before releasing our website update.
Arg.
The point is, our site should look better now to you IE users. Please wear your tinfoil hats so we know who you are.
posted by Thomas Glen at
12:04 PM
2 Comments:
Stupid stupid browser...
I’m a web designer and run into these problems all the time with IE... The biggest problem for me is explaining to my clients that the weird stuff happening to their website is not in my work, but in the browser they use...
They just don’t get it, or worst, don’t believe it...
I just hope that Microsoft stops being so Fu***ng stubborn and starts fixing these bugs… after all, we are their costumers, aren’t we?? Shouldn’t they make OUR life easier and not the other way around??
Frustration…
Thanks for kicking a little MS ass! It’s good for the industry to defy the big dogs once in a while, don’t you think?? (like Tom’s with intel back in the P3 days when they made intel recall all their newest cpus, anyone remember that??)
So it wasn't the extra space. Damn. I will pass the Goddess of the Web tiara to someone else and replace it with a Vader helmut.
--Laura
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