Now isn't this interesting..............?

WillowTheWhisp · 13-10-2005, 07:33

I know that things on computer screens are not always as they seem.

Websites for instance. People who design them sometimes only view them with the one browser - the one which they use. This is all very well until people come along using a different browser and see something a little bit different.

Now you'd think this may only happen when you've got an inexperienced designr who wants to use some subtle colour scheme and isn't aware that it won't show up the same for everyone. It may not matter all that much except that a lot of work of colour matching has simply gone out the window because the "customer" isn't looking at their shop window through the same colour of tinted spectacles.

Mind you, even eBay has fallen into that trap in the forums. I wonder if they have seen them other than via IE? Then you get people like me who go opting for their favourite colours to substitute for blank white pages (I like a pale mauve) and it throws allsorts to pot.

But I couldn't help feeling sorry for someone who'd gone to all the trouble of designing a "floating advert" supposed to follow the cursor around their website and draw your attention to special offers ----- brilliant if you are using IE but totally absent to anyone using Firefox. I kept thinking "What advert?"

vorlon24 · 23-10-2005, 00:14

I have this problem sometimes.

I use FF most of the time, and it stumps me when I click on something and it doesn't work as expected.

Actually, that has made me think - I was on a site earlier that was behaving a little odd... maybe if I remember where I was I should try again with ie instead!

Gayle · 23-10-2005, 10:35

Having just gone through the process of having three websites redesigned for various organisations, it can be a really annoying thing even if it's just screen sizes that the designers are working on that are different to mine.

They believe that they should design for their computer and nothing else, then seem completely confused when you tell them that it doesn't look the same on a different screen. You can see them thinking - 'everyone should just get the same sort of screen as me then'. Designers have no concept that they could possibly be the ones using the most up to date screens or technology and the rest of the world may not have caught up yet.

accymel · 23-10-2005, 12:05

Well im a recent convert to firefox & loving it loving it loving it LOL although i do see your point of colour [my 1st bad experience here pmsl] I was so relunctant to go IE in chat & when i did oh i realised why i changed. Firefox does block images & pop up ads was a pain at 1st till i configured it so cant say ive had much problems for what i browse so far.

Trouble is & someone here brought it up on another thread is that IE is the only thing you get when u get a pc because of it pre installed blaming microsoft monopoly until you become wiser to other alternatives hence web designers tend to follow the IE trend because most users have IE sadly LOL.