Burning the Midnight Oil

[binidj]

So the muse hit me at about midnight last night and I just couldn't go to bed until it was propitiated. So there was me slaving over a hot pc making some significant changes to a site I'd been asked to make some years ago (those who know the tale of this particular site need no further introduction, those who don't know the tale probably don't need to). After an extremely profitable few hours I finally rolled into bed at about 4.30am.

This morning I take a look at the previous night's work and on IE it looks ok, on Opera it looks really quite good but on Firefox it looks like the html equivalent of a crayon scribble. I thought Opera was supposed to be the picky browser? I'm going to have to fix this at some point, there are too many Firefox users around these days to let it slide ... Grrr!

ETA: Fixed one aspect of the Firefox mess, improved on a minor visual trick on IE (though it doesn't work quite so convincingly in Opera or Firefox), now I just have to find a way to make the text render the same size across all three browsers ... waaaaaah!

Comments

[harrytc.livejournal.com]

Do I know this site?

[binidj.livejournal.com]

It's possible. =)

I have sent an email to my client (aka Mrs Harrytc) so hopefully she has been made aware. You can get a look at the same address as before, I have preserved the dreadful older version if she hates the new one.

[invisible-al.livejournal.com]

Font sizes, I think without setting the pixel height you can't and that's bad because it locks the size for people on big monitors. So you just have to go for least worst case and if they need to increase the font size most modern browsers can increase that for people.

[steve-c.livejournal.com]

I tend to start with making a site work in Firefox first and then cludge it to work ok in other lesser browsers. I do this because I thinks it's better to produce a standards compliant site (and Mozilla browsers are still the only major ones that are standards compliant) and then find ways to also deal with the non-compliant browsers. Secondly, the Firefox web developer extension is invaluable as a developer's toolkit - the live editiing of CSS is particulalry brilliant.

[binidj.livejournal.com]

I thought Opera was standards compliant? It always used to be the default engine for testing compliance.

Not tried the Firefox developer extension but then I'm happy with my curmudgeonly old CSS editor (TopStyle Lite).

Given that Firefox is the only common browser that seems to display the text sizing "correctly", regardless of compliance, that's the one that needs a work-around. Refreshing though it may be to have a browser that treats x-small as genuinely x-small!