Posts Tagged ‘header tags’

The world according to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer must not be a very pretty one.  I wish I could just ignore that #$@^%$# browser entirely because it just seems that I rarely have problems with Chrome, Safari, and Firefox and web pages work just fine or are relatively easy to fix.  There is always one online viewer out of 100′s that use ie that seem to be the first ones to see the site and then since they don’t have real lives anyway….immediately let everyone know your page “in their world” doesn’t look right.  They must really be tired of complaining (and they do) about how websites look.

So I had an issue with a WordPress site that has a pretty crazy template based on WP-Frameworks that I inherited and everything seemed to be fine in ie8 but not for all.  I found that when people had their “compatibility view” on for ie7 this is what messed it up.  Fortunately, there is a code you can put in your headers’ meta-tags that fixes that issue without having to work up a completely differnt css for ie.  Now of course, for those that are truly using ie7….I just have to say “I’m sorry”,  but I’m sure they are just used to life being miserable anyways.  (*Note:  I will have to fix it for ie7 eventually but the template really needs to be truly fixed but right now, launching is more important.)

…can you tell I’m in a bad mood abut this?!?

Not a very recent post but this is where I found my quickfix on TheSiteWizard.com.

Additional sites that made me feel better were:

http://www.IhateIE.com

I hate IE Blog

I Hate Internet Explorer Facebook page