Adium X(tras) site layout with IE

m0nk3y · Post by **m0nk3y** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:25 pm

Has anyone noticed that if you look at Adium X(tras) site in Internet Explorer, it is totally messed up! The transparency on the images dont work, the main content is pushed to the bottom of the page and the boxes dont line up.

Is it me or is it a IE problem?

BTW, i tried FireFox and displays just fine.

m0nk3y

Post by **jstamos** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:29 pm

IE problem, which was a problem with the old site in general. But because Explorer blows (and doesn't work in 10.4), it was never really a concern

m0nk3y · Post by **m0nk3y** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:40 pm

true, IE is a bit poo, but at the same time, alot of people still use IE and if it doesnt work then isnt it bad for adium xtra as it looks a bit unprofessional??

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:46 pm

We are aware of this issue. No need for further discussions.

m0nk3y · Post by **m0nk3y** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:49 pm

ok fair enough.

I was woundering why these issues happen? Why does it work fine with Firefox but not IE? Is it the way it parses the CSS??

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:53 pm

well considering adium only works with 10.2+, they sould be using safari

maybe if the site detects ie for mac it displays a popup telling them to switch to safari?

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:57 pm

Wengero wrote:well considering adium only works with 10.2+, they sould be using safari

maybe if the site detects ie for mac it displays a popup telling them to switch to safari?

That's like telling people that a website should only work with ie 5.5 in a popup too

Same thing with telling people about using firefox, or if they should use a certain resolution or even a certain computer.

eevyl · Post by **eevyl** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:01 pm

m0nk3y wrote:ok fair enough.

I was woundering why these issues happen? Why does it work fine with Firefox but not IE? Is it the way it parses the CSS??

Yeah, IE for Mac and IE for Windows both have outstanding bugs and random behavior when parsing CSS, known by MS for years but ignored in the thinking that they don't had to fix those bugs, in fact it was good for them because web designers build the websites taking only IE for Win into account and those end up working only in IE/Win.

Now they say they are very sorry and will try to fix that in the next IE/Win 7 which, by the way, wasn't supposed to ever see the light of day.

In short, gotta love Microsoft.

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:03 pm

eevyl wrote:
m0nk3y wrote:ok fair enough.

I was woundering why these issues happen? Why does it work fine with Firefox but not IE? Is it the way it parses the CSS??
Yeah, IE for Mac and IE for Windows both have outstanding bugs and random behavior when parsing CSS, known by MS for years but ignored in the thinking that they don't had to fix those bugs, in fact it was good for them because web designers build the websites taking only IE for Win into account and those end up working only in IE/Win.

Now they say they are very sorry and will try to fix that in the next IE/Win 7 which, by the way, wasn't supposed to ever see the light of day.

In short, gotta love Microsoft.

Which will only be available on Longhorn

m0nk3y · Post by **m0nk3y** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:07 pm

The_Tick wrote:
eevyl wrote:
m0nk3y wrote:ok fair enough.

I was woundering why these issues happen? Why does it work fine with Firefox but not IE? Is it the way it parses the CSS??
Yeah, IE for Mac and IE for Windows both have outstanding bugs and random behavior when parsing CSS, known by MS for years but ignored in the thinking that they don't had to fix those bugs, in fact it was good for them because web designers build the websites taking only IE for Win into account and those end up working only in IE/Win.

Now they say they are very sorry and will try to fix that in the next IE/Win 7 which, by the way, wasn't supposed to ever see the light of day.

In short, gotta love Microsoft.
Which will only be available on Longhorn

and longhorn wont be out for another couple of years!

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:12 pm

m0nk3y wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
eevyl wrote: Yeah, IE for Mac and IE for Windows both have outstanding bugs and random behavior when parsing CSS, known by MS for years but ignored in the thinking that they don't had to fix those bugs, in fact it was good for them because web designers build the websites taking only IE for Win into account and those end up working only in IE/Win.

Now they say they are very sorry and will try to fix that in the next IE/Win 7 which, by the way, wasn't supposed to ever see the light of day.

In short, gotta love Microsoft.
Which will only be available on Longhorn

and longhorn wont be out for another couple of years!

So we just leave it to what I said a few posts back:

We know.