Tags: | internet explorer | terrible | school |

2007-05-07 23:56

Internet Explorer is a Terrible Browser

It's been quite a few years since I've used Internet Explorer as my web browser, but as an amateur web designer it is necessary to view new designs in as many browsers as possible, to ensure they are rendering correctly. With my recent change from one column to a two column layout I realized just how terribly annoying IE can be. This time I ran into two problems; the first, IE completely ignored the CSS setting "min-height", which I used for the left-side content - I gave it a minimum height large enough to match the right-side column height, and it's supposed to expand beyond the minimum if the content requires it. IE doesn't actually use the min-height setting, and instead treats the normal height tag like all other browsers treat min-height. I finally researched a solution, which was to use the IE-only CSS tag "_height." The fact that CSS has IE-only tags just highlights the fact that IE is broken and completely misses on their attempt to correctly render CSS tags. The other problem I ran into during my re-design was IE's inability to correctly display a PNG image with alpha transparency. If you are using IE you might notice that the "fuel my blog" button on the sidebar to your right has a white background - if you aren't using IE, you didn't notice a problem, because other browsers don't have a problem with transparency. I haven't yet fixed this problem - there are a few complicated solutions that I might try, or I might give in and color the background of the PNG or get rid of the button completely; either way this problem makes me angry. I hope that eventually IE fixes all of the rendering problems they have in their browser, but even if they do, I doubt I will ever decide to switch back to IE as my browser.

On a more positive note, I finished the final exams for my classes today, and I am semi-officially done with college. I spent this last weekend and today studying as much as possible and I am very very happy to be finally done with this semester. Assuming that I've passed my classes, I will be graduating next Saturday, and I will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science!

- Kevin
Kevin (at) Upcsite (dot) Net

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