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Designing for browsers, common mistakesDesigning for less common browsers. What kind of damn fool designs a 50 page site that looks like crap in any version of MSIE and then has the stupids to tell you on his website that it's designed for firefox and if you can't see things the right way, then go get firefox.IOW, the message to the surfer is Screw you, I don't care if you can see my site unless you click on this link and get firefox. Does it become clearer to you now? The idiot is getting paid from google or someone to get you to go to firefox and download their browser. Hopefully this idiot didn't want to sell anything else on his other 50 pages because he's not satisfying the greatest market share of surfers. Lol, they use MSIE. Doesn't matter if you like MSIE, that's what's used the most so excluding them and all other browsers is just plain stupid. I will never download some other browser just to view some idiots site. Neither should you or anyone else. If you don't like your browser or a different one has features you want that your present browser doesn't have, by all means get a different browsers. Just don't do it to view some arrogant jerks website. I'm going to give flock a try because it does some things that MSIE6 doesn't do. BTW, I hate MSIE7. That's the only good reason to get a new browser. If I could find addons to make MSIE6 do the same things I'd use them instead. MSIE is still over 50% of browser usage so excluding them is going to cost a ton of money. Moreover, depending on what you are selling, newbies use MSIE more often than anyone else, you have excluded more than 50% of your market. In general newbies are easier to sell some things to than are experienced surfers. Newbies are also less likely to go download some other browser, probably from fear rather than anything else. They hear so many horror stories about the net, identity theft, CC theft, etc. that they are pretty much afraid to download anything let alone install it. Furthermore they probably have no clue as to how to install it. They go with what Microsoft gives them because they figure if it came with the PC it must be good and it must be safe to use. They have little knowledge of virii, phishing, etc. and have no clue how to be safe. Heh, you might say this is what prompted Vista. IMO Vista is a piece of crap that takes even more control away from users and does it all in the name of safety. MS should be ashamed but they aren't as it's all about the money. The dumber the user the happier they are with Vista. Unless I switch to some type of Unix for PC it's highly unlikely I'll ever upgrade to Vista or any other MS offering. XP Pro SP2 does everything I need, it's very stable and I see no sense upgrading to a piece of crap that hinders me instead of helps me. Anyway, here the list of browsers that were used on my How To Use Mind Power site during the month of August 2008. As you can see MSIE still has the largest segment by a wide margin. Lol, now I have a problem with Flock. Sheesh, it appears Roboform doesn't work to well with Flock. Heh, it tells me when I try do download Roboform for Flock that's it's updates are to insecure so it won't even download it and I'm not really in the mood to figure out what I need to do to get it to work. I used Flock for about 12 hours yesterday and it works fine, I even kinda like it but if it can't handle Roboform I can't use it. So it appears Flock is a lot like Vista. You can use it but it's security features keep you from using it the way you need to. So if I can't make it work I'll continue with MSIE 6. Wonderful, I found the problem with Flock and am now using it. You should check it out as it makes working with Web2.0 sites so much easier. It's based on firefox so most things that work with Firefox will work with fox. Just don't get the beta version. My recommendation is to design for MSIE and then make it look as good as you can in Firefox. That should cover the vast majority of surfers you get at your site. Don't design for just one browser like Firefox. If you do you are throwing away 86% of your traffic. I can't afford that, can you? |