Thursday 20 March 2008

Fancy Features Don't Always Work...

A customer insisted that I use drop down menus for his site. He wanted the title that is always displayed to not be a link and there to be no other 'redundant' links on the page.

Sounds harsh, but that's basically what he insisted on for his desired style and when I tried putting copies of the links at the bottom of the pages, he wasn't happy. The drop down menus use pure CSS, with a slight hack for Internet Explorer (thanks for not being fully CSS compliant...).

I've tested the site across Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and Opera, but apparantly he's found an obscure browser, that I've never heard of before, that they don't work in.

Well, here's the warning. Fancy features are great, but the cleverer the feature, the less likely it is to work across every browser. And if you don't have the redundant links on the page, then some people can't access your site.

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