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travails of a webmaster

Date: September 05, 2004 | 20 Rajab 1425 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: website, blogs
Readers of my site who use really ancient browsers may notice a change in its appearance, though hopefully folks using modern browsers (I mean, ones released in the last five years) shouldn't notice any difference. Previously, visitors using ancient browsers had a problem viewing my content because the side columns overlapped the middle column with the text. Now, these visitors will see a really stripped-down version of the site without any fancy styling or formatting. It isn't pretty, but it should at least be readable.

The problem is that the earlier browsers were very poorly designed and full of bugs so that they don't interpret CSS correctly. It's difficult if not impossible to design a sophisticated stylesheet that works in both modern browsers and ancient browsers. I went for designing one that works in modern browsers, but this causes problems for the occasional visitor reading my site from a really old browser on their computer at work (hi, Dad wink ).

Hopefully, the changes I made (a CSS hack) will allow the site to be read by most all visitors, inshallah, even if it isn't always pretty. The site should look normal except for visitors using Netscape 4.x and IE 5.0, inshallah. If anybody is using a more recent browser than that and sees the site messed up, please drop me an email, inshallah.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 05:40 PM

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