Embrassed Face.
Being a web designer is all well and good, but moving to a Mac for development has just taught me a lesson. I develop in Firefox and test in Safari as well while I am at it. I run Parallels and Bootcamp for Windows so I can in theory test in Internet Explorer 6 & 7. But being on the Mac makes me lazy. Sites just work how they are supposed to in Firefox and Safari as they are well behaved browsers.
I rolled out a Textpattern version of FCS Websites and it all looked great. On the Mac. It turns out that the front page layout was completely cocked in Internet Explorer 6 & 7, and so was the portfolio page. I am looking for a smiley that can express how embarassed I am right now, but there isn’t one.
Lesson for today, kids: “If you are a web designer, at least make sure your own site works on the dominant web browser.”
September 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
n00b
I’ve just started using VMware, with a copy of IE Tester on my Mac. Seems pretty good to me. Parallels didnt seem as stable as it should be to me.
September 21st, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Yeah I reckon i’m going to swap to VMWare. Cheers for the IE tester tip, I’ll check it out.
I didn’t mention that fact that updating Parallels killed my Bootcamp partition and got my Macbook stuck in an endless XP reboot loop :(
September 29th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
and this is exactly why i’ve gone back to developing in windows. it may not be ‘cool’ but it makes some kind of sense to develop in your target environment.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:43 pm
It just means i need to remember to test stuff in Parallels or Bootcamp before unleashing it