Archive for December, 2006

Browsers re-writing code

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

There’s a song on Sesame Street, which I watch several times a week with my son, that goes something like this:

One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn’t belong
Can you tell with thing is not like the others
By the time I finish this song?

I was reminded of this when I realized that an administrative function I added to Shimmie wasn’t working properly in Opera or Internet Explorer. I still use Firefox as my primary browser both at work and at home, so while this administrative widget was under development I used Firefox for testing and debugging purposes. The HTML involved was simple, with no CSS vagaries or complicated manipulations of the box model, so it shouldn’t have been necessary to rigorously pore through the myriad browser options.

How naive of me.
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