Thursday, January 8, 2009

Known Bugs In Other Browsers

As you know, I am a Firefox user, so everything I design is based on the way it will look it Firefox. So I have downloaded the top browsers and viewed the site on those. I am talking about Google Chrome, Opera, Netscape, Safari, Internet Explorer and even WebTV. here are my results:

Chrome- Same layout and look as in Firefox. The glider on the home page works as it should, and when one of the links is clicked on it opens in the Highslide "pop up" as it should. Two bugs i noticed. One bug is if you click out of the pop up, the music or video or similar continues to play in the background. Also if you click one of the links on the home page, the pop up pops up fine, but the other things in the window doesn't show. like the comments, ratings, etc... But only in some of them. The process is random, and I have no solution to this problem. Other than that, the site works fine.

Opera- One major bug I noticed is the glider on the home page, or all the pages for that matter, doesn't work. It won't move on to the next one, so that makes it impossible to see the other links. This is pretty important, and I am searching for a solution immediately. The high slide pop out works on here, but the same thing as chrome, the multimedia will continue to play unless you stop it.

Netscape- The one bug i noticed here is that when you click the glider for the first two times it doesn;t change. It takes three clicks for it to move to the next slide. Not a huge deal if you figure it out. Other than that everything is fine

Internet Explorer- This is the worst at my site. The layout is all messed up. Everything about it is screwed and wrong. Also none of the features work. The glider, the pop up and every java script feature I have. Internet explorer makes the site look and work bad and i STRONGLY suggest you switch browsers.

WebTV- Boo. Honestly, does anyone use this?

Safari- First note that I use windows, the obvious better computer. So this was tested in windows safari. I'm not sure how the site reacts on macs. That being said, I tested the site and it had the same exact results as in Google Chrome... Strange. So The only problem being that some of the pages tabs don't. I really can't figure out why. Other than that, the site's layout looks normal and the features all work fine.

All in all I am going to say SWITCH TO FIREFOX. It is overall the best browser in handling javascripts and such, and it has overall better quality than the other browsers. If anything, switch to another browser if you are using IE. That is all
Thanks,
-Alex

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