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“Hello, I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC…”
Unless you’re Rip Van Winkle and have been asleep for the last several years, you must have heard that phrase or seen some of the commercials aired by Apple. Without beating around the bush – personally, much to the credit of Microsoft, we prefer Macs for a googol of reasons.
But hey, Microsoft still continues to lead the industry with an inferior OS despite its disastrous attempts to copy the superior features and stability of Mac OS X, brilliantly integrated with Apple’s awesomely designed hardware. Wow, what an idea, a computer and OS created and supported by the same company! Ingenious, isn’t it? Definitely not a package you get with a PC. Perhaps as a PC user you’ve wondered “Let’s see now, who should I call for this problem, Microsoft; the company that sold me the hardware; the manufacturer; or the company that wrote the software program that isn’t working quite right? Hmmm, so many choices!#?&@/!”
OK, so much for our unpaid endorsement of the superior-in-every-way-possible Macs over PCs, ’cause that’s not the real reason we’re writing today, though as with most PC users, we could go on writing volumes about our frustrations.
What we really want to emphasize here is the importance of testing every page on your website using as many browser platforms and their prior iterations as possible. Now, if you are a seasoned web designer, you already know this. But still it can be, and almost always is, a real hassle to make everything work just right on Internet Exploder (a.k.a. Internet Explorer “IE”), especially if you’re adhering to the standards used by the rest of the world’s browsers.
Still, we see plenty of websites out there that behave differently, no badly, depending on which iteration of IE a user has. Oh, that Microsoft would get its act together, instead of ignoring standards used by the rest of the world! Oh well, what are you going to do? At least in the name of innovation they’re consistently inconsistent. And don’t we all love surprises anyway?
The point is whether your are a seasoned webmaster or someone in charge of making sure your web designer delivers a site that can be viewed by a majority of web users, make certain you or they haven’t overlooked this best practice: Test your website to the max across all the major browser platforms. Hey, if we all had Macs, with the time we could save, we could all go on Safari (yark, yark!). Happy testing!
Oh, and don’t you just love how Microsoft Office introduced “docx “,”xlsx” and “pptx” as the default file formats where you have to intentionally select backward compatibility with prior versions of Office, so you can still share your documents with friends and colleagues, since you’re not certain if they’ve upgraded? Surely, this can’t be construed as an attempt by Microsoft to annoy us and force us all to upgrade. Right? Such a great company! What can I say?
Tags: technology, website design