Why Wait Webs

I don’t like Internet Explorer. I don’t think I’ve made that any secret. One of the reasons for that is that there are many instances where fully valid code won’t render properly in IE6 — many more instances than is the case with other browsers.

IE6 Showing its True Malevolent Self

Today I found the strangest and most terrible bug I’ve ever encountered. In Internet Explorer 6, my main content was completely invisible. Images and text alike were simply gone! The container DIV was stretched out as it would be if the content were there, and the text was selectable! If I highlighted the text, in fact, I was able to see it, even after de-selecting it. On a page refresh however, my content would simply disappear again, only to reappear when highlighted.

I consider this the most terrible bug ever because in most cases, a bug will rearrange your website, or make it look ugly, but users will still be able to access the content. The content is the reason for the site’s existence, and with this disappearing content bug, users of Internet Explorer 6 will not see your content unless they think to highlight it (and in that particular demographic, I’m willing to bet the odds of that are pretty low). Thus your entire site is rendered unusable and pointless. So read on for the fix!

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WordPress 2.7 recently came out. For those of you who don’t know, WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world, and deservedly so. It is highly customizable and extremely themeable. It’s coded with standard, valid XHTML and CSS. My only real complaint with WordPress is that they, like much of the web, chose to use XHTML instead of HTML when there’s no real reason for it. But that’s a topic for another day. As it stands, WordPress is still the best CMS I’ve ever used by far, and that’s why I use it on my own site and recommend it to all of my clients.

I am going to be upgrading this blog and, if all goes well, my clients’ blogs shortly thereafter. Normally I wouldn’t go to the trouble of updating, but this is a big one. Instead of the usual one or two obscure bug fixes, the WP team has completely redesigned the back-end, and from what I’ve seen they’ve done a really good job of turning a great blogging platform into a truly rich CMS (content management system).

Continue reading to find out what some of these great new features are, and for a video showcasing them!

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