Not knowing about something is a really good way of streamlining your workload. Only this morning I came across browsercam which gives you a breakdown of how any given URI/URL works in many different browser and OS combinations. This site, as I already knew, is fugged in IE5 for mac. I might try to do something about that, as about 1-2% of my audience is from there, and might not because its a dying browser and except for its XML parsing has few virtues. Undoubtedly it saved apple's platform from missing out on the popularisation of the internet, but that was then... (cue the inexorable and heartless clanking armour sound effects of the rank and file of the march of the time.) When it was released, I was a convert to IE5 and it was definitely better than Netscape's 4.x series, if nothing else because it was only a browser.

(As a side note, there's a CSS escape hack for IE5.x for mac here that I could use.)

However, those days have come to pass, and Macs now have Safari, a good little browser, and the Mozilla/Gecko variants for people who are more likely to eat environmentally sound food. I prefer Firefox (as you may have noticed), but its a crying shame that its so ugly. Really. I keep threatening to make a better interface but I really don't have time for that. Its one of those things that is a real possibility, but also really attached to the future and will remain there for some time to come.

The real problem is that it doesn't work with Opera. Arse. I like Opera and wish to support it in my own half-assed way. Opera 7 seems to render it worse than 6, which isn't good. Maybe my code is way off. Could be, I wouldn't be that surprised. I get less viewers from Opera than I do from IE for mac and about the same as I get from netscape 4.x. But, unfortunately I still don't give a monkey's about that dinosaur and so that ain't gonna change.

Unfortunately, now I know that the site is buggered on more platforms that I wish it to be and so I have an extra task. Lovely.