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Why do I do this to myself?
Mar. 9th, 2006 07:41 pmSo I've agreed to design another website for someone, not a problem you might think, I enjoy writing html and css and I even enjoy solving problems.
Everything is, indeed, lovely until it comes to cross-browser testing. There was an amount of jiggling that needed to be done to get pages to display properly in Opera and Firefox (Firefox still looks ropy but is at least readable) which was a good thing because it forced me to tighten-up my external stylesheet. Now, however, I'm trying to get a gallery page going. The thing is working perfectly in IE, needs some jiggling in Firefox and doesn't work at all in Opera (which is usually my favourite browser to work with). The initial solution I had seemed to be the best (using anchors on images in a div with hidden scrolling) but clearly I'm going to have to look at some other way of doing things because I can't have the page only working on some browsers.
I hate all this browser-specific nonsense (and it's not just IE that's at fault either) ... it's enough to make me quit writing sites.
**EDIT**
Firefox has been appropriately jiggled and is now indistinguishable (aside from font size) from the IE version. Opera is resolutely refusing to play ball, even though it is recognising the links.
Everything is, indeed, lovely until it comes to cross-browser testing. There was an amount of jiggling that needed to be done to get pages to display properly in Opera and Firefox (Firefox still looks ropy but is at least readable) which was a good thing because it forced me to tighten-up my external stylesheet. Now, however, I'm trying to get a gallery page going. The thing is working perfectly in IE, needs some jiggling in Firefox and doesn't work at all in Opera (which is usually my favourite browser to work with). The initial solution I had seemed to be the best (using anchors on images in a div with hidden scrolling) but clearly I'm going to have to look at some other way of doing things because I can't have the page only working on some browsers.
I hate all this browser-specific nonsense (and it's not just IE that's at fault either) ... it's enough to make me quit writing sites.
**EDIT**
Firefox has been appropriately jiggled and is now indistinguishable (aside from font size) from the IE version. Opera is resolutely refusing to play ball, even though it is recognising the links.
