Posts Tagged ‘browsers’
PSA
Update your browsers. Right now. Especially if you’re still using IE6.
Thank you.
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On a similar note, according to w3schools, use of Internet Explorer 6 is down to less than 10.6 percent of all browser users, as of October.
If only that were a negligible amount.
It will be very nice when we Web designers will never have to worry about IE6 ever again. I was working on a site last week that had a fixed-positioned header and another absolute-positioned div on the right side of the page. It took me less than 4 hours to design and build the site. And then it took me another six days to figure out how to get it to look decent for IE6.
Part of the problem was my inability to find a computer that was still running it. Even the computers at work (which, by the way, still use Microsoft Word ’97) had upgraded to IE7.
Luckily, as I was talking to a friend about my troubles, she showed me Adobe’s BrowserLab. You have to sign into your Adobe account, but then you can upload different URLs and BrowserLab will load and display them in a simulator with all the different browsers: IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari, Firefox for PC, Firefox for Mac, Opera, Chrome… It was a great find, and it made it so much easier to test my sites in older browsers.
