Oh my. Firefox goodness and web tricks

[matgb]

Old news to some, but to others, the wonders that is a decent internet browser (ie pretty much anything that isn't made by Microsoft) is still lost on them. So, reading devils_kitchen this morning, I come across this post linking to his company's homepage. Now, I know that Microsoft's default internet browser is crappy, but do you?

Here's a good reason. Go to his homepage, and hover the mouse over the 'start' button at the top right. Now, if you're using IE, that's just a link to his home. If you're using, for example, firefox, then, using nothing more complicated than a Cascading Style Sheet (something that is simple enough for me to understand and read, even if I can't (yet) code it), you get a full drop-down site map. How cool is that? In Internet Explorer or other crappy browser platforms, you don't get any of the coolness.

So, if you're still using IE, why not get a free copy of Firefox and give money to a good cause? (NB, disclaimer here, giving the money to a good cause involves using the Google version of Firefox, which some people, notably daweaver think is a bad plan) To get it, go here to timworstall's site, and follow the links. Google gives money for every time a person DLs Firefox and uses is once. That's all you have to do, try it.

If you'd rather try a different browser but not trust Mr Google, then there's a decent summary of them on Too Cool for IE. OK, it's midday, there are twelve hours (and one second) left in 2005. I may do a proper 'my life' update before I leave to go out. May. Don't hold your breath ;-)

Edit: added screenshot

Comments

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

Works for me on IE too.

2 cents more, the standards are different betwen browsers (and a bitch to account for sometimes) generally speaking you can do much more with IE and have to scale back to standard for Mozilla. And don't even get me started on Safari. *eye tic*.

They also treat some elements of CSS entirely differently, so it was a case until not to recently that the CSS on that page would have worked in IE but probably not so well in Mozilla.

[matgb]

OK, weird. with my Ie (6.**) it does nothing; with Fx, it gives me the screenshot above.

Are you two using some souped up version of IE, or have they released 6.5 or 7 without me caring?

Even the guy that designed the coding
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html
says it doesn't work on IE.

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

Can't speak for doccy, I'm just using 6.0.2. Honestly, I'm surprised that it's not working - it's like a Twilight Zone moment when you have a case of IE not displaying and Mozilla displaying. I'm as aware as the next person that IE has its large gaping problems, but it does usually handle css better, if not to standard. Frankly, standard sucks monkey *g*

[doccy.livejournal.com]

Aye, 6.0.2 here too...

Ah, tricks...

[(Anonymous)]

I must confess that there is a little Javascript Library, called "IE7" in the header of the page, that makes IE6 Win behave rather better than it would normally do. Whether this works rather depends on your Javascript settings. The "fixed image", i.e. the big flower, works properly with this Library in.

The Library doesn't, however, work at all on IE 5 Mac, and neither does the menu. Bizarrely, the "fixed image" works fine natively, which it does not on 6. So frustrating...

DK

Re: Ah, tricks...

[matgb]

So you're cheating it then? What good is that as an example if it's been fudged? Gah!

Aren't referral logs great?