Sometimes I wish things just worked
This is the problem I get when I work exclusively on a Macintosh: I go to the library to see what my site looks like on a Windows machine and find out the layout breaks—not completely, but enough that I want to tear my hair out and bemoan the fact that the de-facto standard for web browsers is not standards compliant. When will I be able to design something and not have to fix it for Internet Explorer?
On the other hand, the point of standards compliance is that design matters less than content. If you can read it, perhaps thats all that matters. Unfortunately, I am a designer, and it matters. Sometimes I just want to design everything in Flash and know that it will just work (as long as you have a fast connection, the latest plugin and a relatively new computer).
Time to break down and get a Windows machine, I suppose. You would think it would be standard equipment for a website designer. Well, I lost access when I went solo a number of months ago. It just hasn’t been on my list of priorities. I would be fine if the browsershots.org site didn’t have such a ridiculous waiting list for rendering web pages.
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posted Sunday October 9, 2005