http://blog.browsera.com Cross-Browser Site Compatibility Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:29:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've added Chrome 5 and Firefox 3.6.3 browser support to our matrix. According to NetMarketshare, the current browser share breakdown looks like this: Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 26.87% Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 16.97% Firefox 3.6 16.15% Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 11.43% Chrome 5.0 6.48% Chrome 5 has really surged these past few months, as Google has really put a lot ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=116 We've heard your feedback!  We now offer a non-recurring plan, the Project Plan.  For those of you who would only need to use Browsera for a short period of time when you make website revisions, we now offer a plan with a one-time charge of $39.  This will give you ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=112 Hey there everyone, we've been mentioned on Twitter by @smashing_mag, and it's been retweeted numerous times! Thanks for all the support and checking us out. Unfortunately, our servers weren't quite prepared for all of the testing requests, so we apologize for the delay. We're working on adding ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=109 Images not lining up right in IE?  If it appears that there is a mysterious margin in IE even when your margins are set to "0", you're probably affected by this.  Internet Explorer treats whitespace as significant inside of anchors. Consider the following example: <div style="border: 1px solid black; width: 200px;"> ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=103 We're happy to announce that XBDiff is now called Browsera. XBDiff was short for 'Cross-Browser Differences', and was the working name for the initial project. The new name, Browsera, signifies the new Browser Era of applications. We know that developing applications for web browsers is hard, and ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=102 The Livekick homepage suffers from a common problem in IE6.  Floats are getting wrapped incorrectly due to IE not clipping the image to  its containers width.   IE6 renders the Aerosmith thumbnail as its entire width, even though that causes the containing div, which has width=129px, to expand to fit it.   ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=75 It seems that even our friends over at TechCrunch have some serious layout problems, even in IE7.  In this situation, the ad sidebar is wrapped way down below where they should be in IE7 (but are in the correct location in IE6).  Techcrunch gets 5.5 million visitors a month, and ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=67 An interesting difference was detected on the Building 43 Blog between IE and Firefox.   I spent some time trying to figure out which of the two was the "correct" rendering based on their CSS.  The relevant code looks like this: <td> <div class='js-singleCommentMenu' style='float: left;'>[More button]</div> <div class='js-singleCommentKarma' style='float: left;> <span>Like this comment?</span> <span style='display: ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=65 Most web developers are no longer supporting Firefox 2, since its market share has all but eroded away, but just in case someone has this problem in a different browser, I thought I'd mention it.  The site wizehive.com uses a very basic float style for their header and back links, ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=60 A few days ago, a test against the home page for cookpad.com revealed a float drop error in Firefox 3, in their main promotion of a user recipe.  Since then, the recipe featured has changed, and thus the bug does not occur any longer. But, this demonstrates an important point:  if ... http://blog.browsera.com/?p=56