This topic has been beaten to death amongst the web designers by now, and we have already launched a couple other sites since the release of IE7, but damn dude. IE7 really sucks. I don’t have a whole lot of unique or new views on this subject, and I know you all feel my pain; but when you couple a really pixel perfect design with the crazy new array of browsers out there and standards or not… you have browser wars 2007.

Firefox (1.5 and 2, Mac/Windows/Linux), IE6, IE7, Safari, Opera, Wii, Mobile devices… UGH! Just ready to nearly give up… How do you guys out there cope with the inconsistencies, etc?

I’ve been creating webpages since Netscape 2, so I remember the whole IE5 is awesome/Netscape 4.7 sucks argument, and though web standards at least puts a bit of armament on my side, it really hasn’t altered a designer or clients view on what a webpage should be. Sure, you show ‘em some standards based design and they get all gooey when you talk forward compatibility and lowered maintenance costs, but you show em their brand in a standards based format and they get a bit less enthusiastic, “It looks too bloggy, it looks too this, it looks too that.”

Tables and divs aside, what’s a brother to do? It’s enough to make you want to start slugging in font tags and spacer gifs or create the entire site in Flash. Maybe.

Posted on February 19, 2007

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