Concept 2.0

Complete with valid HTML and a URL reachable by the rest of the world! Welcome to the Concept 2.0 blog. We've already been posting so it's well worth reading through the archives as we've used up all our insight by this point ;).

Well, the Internet Explorer fixing is almost done. While the site doesn't look completely identical in IE, the problems are very small ones. I think the biggest issue is that the border for the bottom copyright notice and RSS links is missing in IE and other than that there are just a few issues of different padding and margins on the list so trivial stuff.

Next step, make the code valid. Once that's done we are ready to go!

We were almost ready to go live when I opened the blog in Internet Explorer to get a full screen screenshot from my laptop. Big mistake. Well probably not, it did need testing on Internet Explorer as you can't ignore a browser that is used by three quarters of the market. But we ran into some major problems none the less.

Namely, lists. IE likes to add a lot of random and different margins and padding. It's not even consistent, some of what is in Firefox isn't in Internet Explorer and yet IE also adds loads of other random ones. It was so bad that our third column was actually below the second column rather than at the side of it.

Now I've got it down to two issues, that I have spotted away. The headers are too big which is always a problem between IE and Firefox and also I have one more list issue to battle - IE doesn't give any space at the top of a list item whereas Firefox does and let IE gives lots of space below it and Firefox doesn't. A bit of CSS tweaking should fix that.

Of course it's highly possible that the list issues have been caused by my own CSS as well.

...but it did give me a cool blog title :p.

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