September 7, 2006
I was feeling a little bored, so I took a stab at implementing my new design. It went... not well.
Firefox obeys its rounded-borders command for the border itself and for background colors. Background images just plow right on through. So, the rounded corners don't work.
In Firefox and Swift (which uses the same KHTML engine as Safari) the navigation has bullets even though I explicitly tell it not to. So much for doing the Right Thing and making my navigation a list.
Opera fails utterly on the upper navigation.
Internet Explorer actually does what I mean on the navigation, but chokes in the main body of the page. I threw in a blockquote element (used for longer quotes) as a test, and regular text after the blockquote bleeds out into the background by the same amount as it's supposed to be pushed into the content frame. And black on dark blue doesn't show very well.
Four browsers; four errors, three of which are fatal for the layout. I thought standards-compliant code was supposed to eliminate shit like this.
