I normally use Firefox so I don’t see what’s happening in IE – but now I decided to check my blogs to see what they look like and was in for a very unpleasant surprise. The div’s aligned with CSS that Blogger uses in its standard templates are all messed up in IE.
To evaluate how bad this problem was, I checked my stats for visitors’ browsers and here’s what I got for just one of the blogs:
63.00% MSIE 6.0
20.00% Mozilla 5.0
6.00% Firefox 1.0.4
4.00% Firefox 1.0.6
2.00% Safari 1.2
1.00% Firefox 0.9
1.00% MSIE 5.5
1.00% Netscape 7.1
1.00% Firefox 1.0.5
1.00% Netscape 7.2
Out of all the visitors, different versions of Firefox account only for 12% of all visitors, while 64% run different versions of MSIE.
I am now facing some sleepless nights replacing the div’s with regular tables in those templates – and I should get to it soon. I’m losing AdSense clicks cause of this problem.
The templates Blogger offers look nice as templates even in IE – but once you start filling them with content things are immediately messed up. Your sidebar goes under the rest of content, etc. Just one more example of how Blogger screws up.
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