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April the 1st funny-ness

  • Posted on: March 31, 2004
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I got into work this morning, promptly fired up safari and checked over at Stopdesign (as I usually do every couple of days). He’s changed the design slightly…

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Email received from Douglas Bowman after I informed him of the slight bug with the primary naviation on his site ... think I touched a nerve ;)

Hey Graham,

I actually *did* pay attention to IE5/Mac-OS9, and took great care to
make sure the site rendered as expected in that browser. The navigation
renders--and has rendered--exactly as I wanted in my install (version
5.1.7), and in all the other recent installs of OS9’s IE5/Mac I’ve
seen. Attached within is a screen capture as evidence. I tested Shaun’s
site, and it too renders beautifully in IE5.1.7.

For what it’s worth, older versions of IE5/Mac had a few serious
rendering bugs and flaws--specifically with CSS floats--that Tantek
?elik and his team at Microsoft worked hard to fix in later versions of
5.1. If you’re still using anything other than 5.1.7 (released July
2003), you’re bound to start seeing more and more sites with rendering
problems.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Doug

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Graham Sanders
Sun 4th Apr 2004
at 7:53 am

Mmm, a raw nerve I think.

I saw him at SXSW, he was in a couple of panels about CSS. Very talented bloke, quite inspiring really. His presentations were superb. if you get time, have a look at them at Stopdesign.

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Mark
Mon 5th Apr 2004
at 12:43 am

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