Stupid Internet Explorer

Wednesday, April 06, 2005, at 09:15AM

By Eric Richardson

I'm sitting in the Annenberg computer lab right now waiting for my advisor to get back from lunch. Being in a room full of Windows machines gives me occassion to see my site in Internet Explorer for the first time in a good while. At least on IE 6.0, it really isn't that pretty. Sidebar padding is a bit whacked, and some background colors aren't getting into places they should.

But you know what? I don't care too much. The design still works in IE, even if it isn't optimal. And I'm sick of trying to accomodate really broken CSS models. I'll bend for Safari, since at least it's trying (and the couple bugs like min-width: might be working now), but as long as it's at least passable in IE I'm satisfied, despite its leading 34% marketshare (on blogdowntown).