While Live.com is getting constant upgrades, which are really good. Today I found that even Live.com isn’t exactly inter-browser compatible, a nightmare most web developers endure. The page in question is the All Services page. The sidebar on the right is the one that isn’t being shown consistently in all browsers and appears broken in Firefox 3 & Opera. IE 7 & IE 8 Beta 1, however render the page as it was intended to look.
Screen shot:
Firefox 3; Opera & IE 7:
August 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Why the fuck can’t these guys get together, have a couple of beers, smoke some weed, and decide on some basic rules on how their browsers function! What’s with all the different code!
August 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Ah, thanx for the mention.. now whenever I see a small compatibility issue that doesn’t disappear on repeated trials for fixing, for something I am working on.
I will console my self referring using this as an example
August 9th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
head on to browserhappy.com
wordpress recommend it too :p
August 9th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Oh did I say that Opera and Mozilla saves a lot of headache for developers.
Writing separate code for IE quirks is too daunting.
So here the guys did a terrible thing.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Interesting, so Microsoft’s Live.com works with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? What joy!
August 10th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
@Goobi
“Why the fuck can’t these guys get together, have a couple of beers, smoke some weed, and decide on some basic rules on how their browsers function!”
There is already a standard existing and it is called the W3C standard.
If you have notice both FF3 and Opera have rendered it similarly. It is no news that Opera is a highly standards compatible browser. Safari would render the page in the same way too.
It is only IE which does not have a standards compliant behavior. So if Microsoft takes steps there it is enough.
IE 8 was supposed be fixing this. But the post claims the same behavior is present on IE 8 too.
Post says:
“appears broken in Firefox 3 & Opera. IE 7 & IE 8 Beta 1, however render the page as it was intended to look.”
I’m having my fingers crossed. If IE 8 fixes this, it will be a great boon for all web developers.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Haha!!! I can’t stop laughing.
Classic example of this menace.
Nice find