I Hate Internet Explorer

Last night I spent the better part of an hour re-customizing my blog look. I had found the perfect picture-- an image of a parchment that could tile vertically, and that I could center on the page instead of tiling in both directions. It was large enough that it would look like an ancient scroll sitting in the middle of the screen. I carefully formatted the rest of the blog so the text would stay ON the parchment image and not spill over into the sides. At last, it was perfect. On Firefox, that is. I took a peek at my blog on IE and it was a messy disaster. So I had to stick to my second choice of "paper-like background"-- and you see the results here.

Even more fun was had battling Firefox vs. IE today, on my profile page.

I had inserted some code to automatically resize pictures posted on there, to a maximum width of 260 pixels. I did this to prevent large pictures from stretching out my comment section and knocking the rest of the profile page off center. It worked beautifully on Firefox-- the maximum pic width was always 260 pixels.

But today I looked at my profile on IE and noticed that they were shrunk down TOO much-- to 90 pixels! I played around with the code again and again and again before realizing what the culprit was-- IE treats ALL hyperlinked images as the same. In other words, that includes my friends' profile pics. That's why, Lisa, when you were posting your bug pic comment, everyone's pics were so huge, I was playing around with the sizes. And almost all the pictures posted in my comments section include hyperlinks. So, IE does not differentiate between a Myspace profile pic and a hyperlinked pic that a friend posted in the comment section itself.

So, the only solution at the moment seems to be: if you're gonna post a picture on my profile, please take out the hyperlink and post just the image itself, then it will get resized correctly and actually be VISIBLE and not a tiny thumbnail like you see now. I posted a couple pics myself on my own profile to test this theory, and yup, looks like that's the culprit indeed. Hyperlinks.

Or better yet-- just get Firefox. Then you won't have to worry about it, it'll show up correctly on your end no matter what ;-)

(originally posted at: http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/297601218)