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Making the webapp IE-friendly
I (like to) believe, the hackers community here are very Mac-centric. (If not, that's okay, don't flame me).
I have been working on a RoR app on Mac, so most of my testing (80%) happens on Firefox, and about 20% on Safari. Today I happened to check the interface from IE - it truly sucked! Layout gone wild, JS issues, the bground color missing on most divs, turning the whole app to be a bland unusable site.
How do you guys develop your app? How do you make X-platform compatibility test? I know its a very generic question, but would like to get your viewpoints anyways.
- adubs 18y agoI recommend going down to the bare minimum and sometimes it helps to consistently compare your site with web standards compliance. I can understand some programmers' dilemmas which arise when IE doesn't support 90% of CSS, but at the bottom line 65% of users work with IE and it's the professional-grade standard for most businesses, nonprofits, and schools. That's just my viewpoint on the issue, but I know some people have made their applications browser-specific, in which case they take advantage of available add-on features or applications to enhance the website and allow the use of more advanced templates/designs.
- andyjdavis 18y agoAs painful as it might be I try and stick to IE as my default browser. That way Im seeing sites, my own and others, as the majority of people do. I may not particularly like it but imo the only way to ensure your app works as well as possible for the largest number of people possible is to actually develop under the most common browser.