IE vs. Opera and Firefox.
I am well aware several of my themes do not appear correctly in Internet Explorer. Personally, I could care less. Opera and Firefox are more than capable to handle the coding which is why, when I alter the theme code, I keep this in mind. Is it difficult to code for IE? Yes, it can be so I don’t do it. I apologize to those of you who still use IE, use Firefox or Opera instead. They’re stable and more reliable in my humble opinion.
Start work at 5pm. This is why I am awake at 4am, so I can hopefully go to bed around 8am and get a few hours of sleep. Driving an hour to work isn’t something I look forward to, but until I can find a job paying what I am making at Amazon in Charleston, I’ll have to deal with it. I do have an interview early Tuesday morning for a place called Scientific Games, they handle some of the computer operator work for the West Virginia Lottery. I’m a little concerned with the interview-I have no “dress up” cool weather clothes to wear. Not to mention my nose piercing. I never posted that I got a new piercing, I’ve had it for about a month and I am not about to take it out. This is one reason why I like Amazon. As long as you do your job they don’t care what you look like, as long as you’re neat and smell good. Which is more than I can say about past jobs-Comp in particular-even though they had a business casual dress code, the hygiene of some could have used a little work. And soap. Lots of it.
Received my credit card from Capital One. A small credit limit to begin with, BUT, 0% APR until April. Can’t beat that. So, I was able to pay Dream Host. I will only use this card for gas and pay it off at the end of the month. I can rebuild and repair my credit this way-a good beginning.
I’m still at a loss over whether or not I should pursue my degree online. My mom does not like the idea. We were talking about it Saturday and she was wanting me to call her old boss to “check with her” on if I should do it or not. I’m 32 years old and incapable of making my own decisions. Well, the decisions that please my mother. From the age of 15 on-well, my entire life to be honest, I have always been one to want to please others, to make their lives less worrisome, to do as they wanted me to do. If I am to take care of myself, a full-time job is a must. I can’t work a full-time job and go to school at the same time. I can, but considering how far I drive each day to work, then having to drive back to class, when in the hell would I sleep and when would I do homework? I have to seek approval from everyone. I don’t know if I’m making the right decision or not. I really don’t know what to do. Sometimes I think-I’d rather just work for Amazon the rest of my life, save money, buy a small house eventually and live comfortably. You don’t need a lot of money to be comfortable. Then, I have a little voice inside of me, telling me how far I could go with a degree. If I don’t finish, I’m wasting talent that at this point I’m not aware I have. What do I do? Please others, or help myself? :confused:














I decided to start coding for IE, since Firefox only made up 6% of my visitors and IE made up nearly 70%.
Opera didn’t even register.
I figure that I should cater to the audience, not expect the audience to cater to me…
From my stats page most of my audience (about 65%) uses Firefox. In the beginning I coded for all browsers, but I kept having issues with IE and right sidebars.
I know about the issues you’ve had. I still get them on this laptop when I’m not docked at my desk. Which still baffles me.
I’ll have a post about my browser thoughts in a couple days (I’ve already written it, it just needs to show up…)
Umm, Ben, just wanted to point something out:
Statistics aren’t much more that a bunch of numbers.
“35.2% of browsers that claim to be MSIE aren’t. 84.2% of browsers that use a faked MSIE UA string, are using Opera.”
http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2005/05/statistics-nonsense
I myself identify my Opera browser as IE- otherwise sites deliberately block me (an occurence that was started by Microsoft and just fuels my hate against them more).