Fun with browser compatibility

There's an old vaudeville skit where a patient's leg is sticking up in the air. The doctor pushes it down only to find the arm is now sticking up. The doctor pushes the arm down only to find both legs up in the air. This is not entirely unlike getting CSS to render properly across different platforms.

Having coded the redesign using Firefox, I cracked open my copy of the Internet Explorer 7 beta to see how things looked.

All in all, not too bad. There are a few positioning problems with the margins but nothing a little tweaking and a conditional couldn't take care of. So how did it look in IE 6... ?

Great Ceasar's ghost.

Much of the weekend has been spent pushing down legs and arms. But I think we're getting good to go. Much still needs tweaking, but the blog is now online and the rest will be soon be ready for prime time.

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