Standards Compliant Frustration
Google released a browser yesterday called Google Chrome . It is supposed to be one of the most standards compliant browser yet. Which on the surface seems really cool, having website standards helps web designers ensure that their site looks correct in every browser. Unfortunately having a single “standards compliant” browser is useless. Unless all browsers follow the same standards google chrome is just another browser with a different set of rules that have to be accounted for in design. I still have to write my html to look good in firefox (because everyone should), IE 5.5 (ok seriously guys?), IE 6 (…), IE7 (a step in the right direction), Safari (for those not cool enough to custom build a PC), and now Google Chrome (Standards compliant = awesome, a whole new browser to try to code for = crap). I just finished redoing a website to look good in Google Chrome, testing it in IE and firefox along the way, and when it was finally done, it looks different in all three browsers. so now I have to back track to the last test when it looked right and figure out what went wrong.
While I aplaud Google for their contribution to the Standards Compliant community, I still find the need to test and tweak for another browser frustrating.
Google Chrome can be downloaded here:
http://www.google.com/chrome
You’re over complicating things just a bit. You’re only designing for three major browser engines: IE (originally mosaic), Gecko, and Webkit in that order of popularity. There are others (Opera for instance) but don’t bother.
You should always watch your site statistics and determine whether supporting a particular browser (for example, IE 5.5) is worth it. In my experience, going beyond IE6 is a waste of time.
If you’re not already, you should consider using a CSS reset. It will reduce browser inconsistencies (if not eliminate them entirely) with things like margin, padding, line-height, etc. And if you want to take it a step further, CSS framekworks always speed things up and ease cross-browser compatibility.
In the end though, if you design something and it looks different in all three engines you’re probably not as standards compliant as you think you are.
Good luck! Isn’t web development fun?
Funny you should mention the CSS reset Jonathan. I actually used one I stole from a site you designed. I hope you don’t mind. I credited you in the CSS
I have looked at CSS frameworks but haven’t really gotten the hang of using them.
I think the problem I was running into had to do with the border-box model used by IE. I got it working though. Thanks for the advice.
Oh goodness… be careful which sites I’ve done you use as reference, some are terribly out dated as far as syntax. I use a form of Eric Meyer’s CSS reset now, definitely worth checking out for a start.
I think it is fairly up to date. I used the one from mrisearch.com. I took some stuff out that I wasn’t sure how it worked and needed it to work differently. I will go back later and familiarize myself with the features I didn’t understand. The site I am working on is textbooks2cash.amazinzay.com if you are interested. It is still in progress so really all that works is the book search. Try searching for Google in the keyword search.
I know I should not complain because technically you DID post, but since you posted in a language that might as well have read 000101110111110000101010000110101010001011101111010 I don’t know what you were saying. It’s ok though. Guess what? In this well, since our inclination is close to 90 the tvd hasn’t changed much but the ROP is around 63, so TD projection is dramtically closer than previously believed. Ha! So there! Now you know how it feels, douche!
So, since you’re almost drilling straight down (inclination 90) the total vertical depth (tvd) is what you expected, but the rate of penetration (ROP 63) is getting you to the total depth (td) projection faster than you thought. Right?
Oh, your binary translates to 1539114.
Google does amazing things.
ken wins… it’s about time he won at something
Yeah, what did I win?
You won .7 bragging right points.
Dude, I decoded a heavily encrypted statement about an industry I know nothing about to show that geeks are better than normal people, and I get seven tenths of one bragging right point. I can’t even redeem that until I make up the remaining .3 for a whole. What’s a guy gotta do?
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=) =)
jk.
I love you i promise. I do.
But anyone can use google… well apparently everyone but Jeff
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@Jeff
Love ya
Zay you should go look at you you He he
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