Browser Quirks
Posted by Hans de Ruiter
I just spent a few agonizing hours adjusting the page layout of this site. All I wanted to do was shift the main navigation bar above the splash image, and then right-align the menu items. Not being familiar with CSS (I am not a web designer), this was a trial-and-error process interspersed with searches for information on CSS. The real killer was that Firefox 3 was not rendering things the way that I wanted, whereas Internet Explorer was (although Internet Explorer still messes up the fonts). I have taken to testing layouts on multiple browsers, as there is no knowing whether it will look right on all of them.
Why use XHTML at all?
Posted by Hans de Ruiter
I decided to add a Google Adsense bar discretely at the bottom of the page, and once again, I had trouble with Firefox. Internet Explorer displayed the page just fine, but Firefox added the new advertisement below the existing ads at the top of the page.