When I was developing our company's website, I had a coworker who kept complaining about how "terrible" it looked. He complained that half the images were missing, half the text was unstyled, blah blah blah. I asked him what browser he was using: Firefox 3.0.1. I was using 3.0.1 as my primary browser. He said he had another coworker that had the same problems.
It took me two weeks of off and on troubleshooting to finally locate the problem. I had placed all the images and CSS in a folder labeled with the company acronym: ADS. The real problem? He had Adblocker Plus installed, which was blocking the images and CSS. If I had to pick a moral to this story it would be this: If you're using a Tier 1 browser and a website looks broken, you should maybe check your plugins before filing bug reports. However, I really just wanted to point out how frustrating it could be to track down a single or small-group user issue. There are so many variables that it's just damn near impossible to fix something that one user is seeing without having their computer (this, by the way, is how I finally fixed my issue). Peace, Dave On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Rick Faircloth <r...@whitestonemedia.com>wrote: > Well, it does look fine now…(just a couple of very minor issues, > relatively speaking). > > Has someone done some tweaking lately? I haven’t look at the site in maybe > > a week or two, and I may not have even noticed it was displaying correctly. > > > > Even with it having problems, I could get two what I needed, so I didn’t > pay it > > much attention after awhile. Good to see it’s looking better! > > > > Rick > > > > *From:* jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Karl Swedberg > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:01 PM > *To:* jquery-en@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [jQuery] Re: jquery website broken? > > > > Again, there's not a whole lot we can do if we can't replicate the problem. > Here is what the page looks like in IE 7 for me: > > > > http://skitch.com/kswedberg/be1wy/ie-7 > > > > See? Looks perfectly fine. It shouldn't be surprising to see the page "so > badly broken" if it's only broken for some IE 7 users and not for others. > > > > If someone who is seeing the page broken can troubleshoot and recommend > changes to the CSS, I, or one of the other team members, would be happy to > apply them. > > > > Thanks, > > > --Karl > > > ____________ > > Karl Swedberg > > www.englishrules.com > > www.learningjquery.com > > > > > > > > On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > > > > > Yes, I have to say that's it's been very surprising that the > site would be so badly broken in IE 7 since it was put up. > I figured someone would get around to fixing the css...assuming > that's what the problem is. > > The site looks great when it's right, but really bad when it > starts flying apart. Can't we get some love (or at least affection :o) > for the IE 7 version of the jQuery site? > > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > [mailto:jquery-en@googlegroups.com<jquery-en@googlegroups.com>] > On > Behalf Of iain.wa...@googlemail.com > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:11 AM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] jquery website broken? > > > Hi, > > I really want to start using jquery in some places to replace > mootools, however i find it extremely difficult to persuade clients to > go with jquery when the jquery website at http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page > is completely broken in IE7. Is there any reason for this? > > >
