Now this is why I hate web development…ok, so I don’t hate it all the time, and a lot of the time it’s quite fun… but still. My wife tried to read my blog from her work computer today and called me to ask why the site looked broken in Internet Explorer.

Crap.

See, the funny thing is: I forgot to test the damn site in IE! Big ‘oops’ on that one. I’ve been using my MacBook almost exclusively for the past 3 months (I had tested thoroughly in FireFox and Safari), and so it never even occured to me to test in IE. It turns out that the new site layout was completely broken. So I booted up the ‘ol PC this afternoon and spent the next 4 hours putting in IE-specific fixes for the CSS. Yuck.

This is why I love console game development: you know exactly what hardware and software the user will be running. Oh well, I suppose I’d better get used to this if I’m going to build my game for Windows and Mac…

Owen

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