Some people have asked us: “What’s the point of this blog?” or “What are you trying to accomplish with it?” We don’t have a reals reason and apart from ridding the world from Internet Explorer, we don’t plan to accomplish anything with it. Truth be told, one day, after finalizing a website, and forgetting to test it on IE (we know, how dumb) we get a call from our client telling us: “What’s wrong with you guys? This website looks like shit” We quickly fired up firefox and saw our website looking perfect and working even better when it hit us, we forgot to test it on IE. At this point we opened IE7, Safari & Opera and found that website was working perfectly on them as well but we were not so lucky with IE7

Then, after hours beating our heads constantly trying to get all elements of a website to work correctly on IE7 and sacrificing some design and functionality, we call the client to let her know that everything should be fine now.

To our surprise we get a call back from her 30 minutes later asking us to please stop wasting her time and fix her website. We looked at each other wondering what was going on when suddenly, IE6. sure enough, the website look like hell on IE6.

Four hours later, including the time spent swearing at Bill Gates we had our own little “frankensteinian” website that worked well enough and looked ok enough in all browsers.

We called our client a third time and after hanging up we were all ready for some beers when suddenly, another call. This one wasn’t so bad but our client instructed us that there where still elements that look out of place. We open IE6 while still on the phone with her and saw that the website was looking correctly on our end. So after 15 minutes of going back and forth with settings and searching the internet, we had our client send us a screen print. To our surprise, for some strange and undocumented reason, the website was dropping some of the floated block elements making it look incorrect.

To be more precise, the same version of IE6, on two different computers, with the same operating system, monitor resolution, etc, were displaying a website on two different ways.

I hope this little story has helped you understand us a little bit better and now you can join us in our quest to make all web developers live easier.