Oh now that just makes me angry. I'm in *love* with my macbook, especially since I have parallels, and can run any version of any OS I want in it. I can run Windows XP on my mac, and test against IE7, or run Safari native on OSX, or even use Konqueror under Fedora under Parallels.swiftouch wrote:I guess my problem is the Mac designer, who doesn't have more than a 5.5 IE browser to test with because (that nasty M word) decided to stop supporting IE for mac a long time ago. 95% of my issues crop up in ie6, because people don't want to upgrade.
Anyone using a mac has little excuse when it comes to testing. VMWare fusion is even available for free, I think.
I have many serious issues with Microsoft, but for better or worse, IE7 *was* an improvement over IE6. Built-in popup blocking for the majority browser? Yes please!swiftouch wrote:It's not like IE7 was ever easy and intuitive. I despise that browser for it's continual lack of features and add-ons and everyone else should who've had a taste of firefox. But then again, i know my mother hasn't upgraded from 6.0 to 7 specifically because I refuse to have to make her re-learn where everything moved to in the newer 7.0. I really have a problem with M. right now and better quit before I start thinking about breaking my laptop into little pieces.
Thats not to say they fixed even close to half the rendering bugs, but considering they had done nothing for over five years, I was thrilled at the change to them doing something.
I would encourage you to check out Dean Edward's IE7. It is additional size added to a page, but it eliminates a huge number of browser incompatibilities when dealing with IE. There are other similar scripts out there that offer really consistent rendering across standards-compliant browsers and IE. But notice these are suggested workarounds to a broken browser. I'm in complete agreement that IE makes life harder on designers.swiftouch wrote:My frustration grows out of lost time spent dinking around with pixels. Fluid design or not, when you have a heavy site graphically, anyone is going to have 3 dozen issues to deal with before you get the kinks worked out. Instead of a $500 dollar website costing $500 what you end up charging is more like $2-3k to deal with all these "inconsistencies."