That can't be right..?
Now that our super-touchy internet security people have let me back online at work, I was browsing the blogs in my lunch-hour when I happened upon a post on Signal vs Noise about the relaunch of Coudal Partners’ website.
I’d not heard of them before, but what the hell, let’s check it out.
Click – hmmm. Bit of an odd gap on the right-hand edge of the page… ah, there’s the missing content, bumped down to the bottom of the page. A classic broken float layout – and in IE6/Win no less! Very poor for a company apparently associated with all that is good in design.
I’m beginning to think that there is something rather odd going on with either my PC, my browser, or my monitor here at work. Far too many standards-based websites are breaking, and all in the same way; recently Hicks Design, Andy Budd, Zeldman and Mezzoblue have all suffered from one or other content columns dropping to sit beneath the other. I refuse to believe that all those guys are either too sloppy to test in IE6 or don’t care about 90% of their audience.
So what the hell is happening??
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Comments
- Jon Hicks
- 2881 days ago
- Only 28% of my audience is IE Windows. You can try and fix everything, but sometimes life is too short to accommodate browsers with bad CSS rendering. Sometimes you’ve just got to get sleep! ;o)
- #1
- chuck
- 2881 days ago
- I really enjoy your posts! I’ve been looking through the last several posts and I like what I see.
I understand what you’re going through with this whole redesign thing.
I just converted my site (which was not powered by any CMS) to Movable Type. I’ve had some fun reconfiguring the templates. There are so many little things that make up blog entries/archives that I did not realize, even though I look at blogs everyday.
Its the little things that make all the difference. Feel free to check out my site and let me know if anything doesn’t work.
Keep up the good work – once you get it all set up, it will be worth it :) - #2
