Filed under: Rifotech.se, Software Engineering, Web Development | Tags: Acid tests, Browser, Layout Engine, Rifotech.se, Software Engineering, Standards, Web Development
Why do they have to interpret everything in there own way?
Yeah, I know why but it’s really annoying when you are trying to develop a site, as most of you webdevelopers know, you have to style the site for almost every browser. Though things are starting to look better as web browser evolve. But none of the public builds of the most common browsers (layout engines, really) follows the standard, and most of the development builds are not there yet. And even when the public builds will, if that ever happens , follow the standard some people will use old versions that break the standard.
However that was not the problem for me as I was doing stuff that wasn’t compliant with the standards, since the current standards didn’t cower that. I managed to keep it working with the Trident (Internet Explorer), the GECKO (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari) but for the others fixing it just took to much time. So what could I do, keep the site up, most of the users would be able to use it anyway, spending the entire weekend working on a patch to make it work for the current versions of all browsers or take it down and re-design it to make it adhere to the standars, I chose the last alternative. So that’s why rifotech.se will be down for a while. But trust me it’ll be worth waiting since the new version will be better, more beautiful and give you a lot more.
