[thelist] em's , CSS, aol - etc
Bob Meetin
ontheroad at frii.com
Tue Aug 1 10:25:52 CDT 2006
This is where it gets a little muddy for me - the
relationship/inter-relationship between IE and AOL. I can test all
sorts of browsers and common screen resolutions on either my linux or
windows pc, and with the safaritest site I can even get a safari
snapshot. I have no personal need for AOL and little/no understanding
of it. I read one of the previous replies talking about a bug with fonts
in EMs( http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingEms ). On my windows
pc running IE6, my site and others I've developed using EMs are fine.
When with the client yesterday (her looking over my shoulder), I didn't
think to check the version of IE (I was in a state of shock). What I
saw was AOL, unfamiliar territory, unfamiliar drop downs, no drop down
with a text resize option or the other options I'm used to, a very old
and dismal monitor set to 800x600.
CSS drop-down menus on my site and another I checked were failing (good
thing for sitemaps...). Of all the oddities that were breaking, I have
an xhtml compliant javascript slideshow - that was "working".
Certainly with a little more knowledge of AOL, I/we would be in better
shape, even better prepared to ask the right questions. Without going
far out of the way to set up a test environment for this situation type,
again, how much can (or should) you reasonably prepare for, development
standards wise ( if xyz version of IE do this...) and how do you set
reasonable expectations for customers?
Yes I could have brought my laptop for some pieces of the demo, but this
doesn't work well with databases. I would have to routinely sync up a
database on my laptop. I also like to give my clients some time to
show me sites that interest them. Bits and pieces...
-Bob
Lee kowalkowski wrote:
> On 31/07/06, Bob Meetin <ontheroad at frii.com> wrote:
>
>> yet not knowing the AOL browser, I could
>> not figure out how to reset the font, and not sure that I should
>> anyhow.
>>
>
> I don't know about every past-carnation of AOL, but the ones I have
> seen basically use IE's DLLs, so, what version of IE was installed?
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