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Fan-tas-tic progress and issues
Although the fan-tas-tic project is making good progress, I’m running to some issues which slows down the overall progress: This post is a short status update.
Issue 1: Internet Explorer still sucks.
Even version 7. And I have no high expectations for IE8, no matter how many tests it’ll pass.
I had to tweak a lot of CSS code just to make sure IE7 doesn’t screw up my layout, although it was fine enough in FF and Chrome.
A relief is that a bigger part (65%) of my visitors do use FF. An explanation for this is that the audience mostly consist of bloggers, designers and developers. They already know IE sucks.
However on my soccerforum IE is used by 53% of the visitors. This just confirms the theory about the audience of the sites. And because I’m expecting a mixed audience for Fan-tas-tic!, I dare not to neglect IE fully.
Issue 2: Local vs online
The ‘look and feel’ of my localhost XAMPP is not 100% the same with the Apache server of my host. So I have to now and then test it online.
Just recently I’ve found this lill’ usefull plugin: Theme Test Drive. Activating this plugin it will give you, logged in as a admin, the ability to activate another theme and see what the site actually will look like.
In the mean time the regular visitors will see the clever ‘under construction’ theme Launchpad.
Issue 3: Intense Debate is still giving me headaches
I just might have to dish it in the end after all. I’ve complained here why I chose for Intense Debate. The problem is that when ID is enabled it takes too long to count the number of comments: it has to retrieve data from the ID-server for every post.
Gotta go…and make some more fan-tas-tic progress.