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It’s as though being laid off for nearly three months has made me forget everything I’ve ever known about technology. One of the things I learned a long time ago was to assume nothing. I wish I had remembered that little adage a couple of weeks ago when I made some minor changes to the theme my blog currently uses. I made the changes while using the Firefox web browser and I just assumed that everything looked right in other browsers.
How stupid of me.
It turns out that even though the changes I made to the css style sheet looked fine in Firefox, the changes looked anything but fine in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The changes caused my blog to not load correctly in Internet Explorer. When I finally got around to opening my blog with Internet Explorer, I discovered that the entire screen was dark brown, causing the text to be unreadable.
I didn’t know anything was wrong until I posted an email I received the other day from an angry reader that wanted to inform me that he was unsubscribing to my RSS feed because, well, he said he couldn’t read posts.
I didn’t know what this person was talking about, so I asked if anyone else knew. It wasn’t until I read the comments that I knew anything was wrong.
From now on when I make changes to my blog, I’ve going to take a look at the changes not only in Firefox, but Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari too.
It’s a good thing I’m starting work again on Monday. Any longer on unemployment and I would probably forget everything I’ve ever known about technology.
In a perfect world, all web browsers would share similar browser compatibility. Assume nothing.
