Do you design websites?

[amiga_3k]

@Amiduffer:

I've done my own homepage and try to maintain it as well. The only one forcing me to use the newest bells and whistles would be me. So every few months I sit down and decide that 'I must do something with FLASH', then I download some progs (for MacOS 9) that should enable me to do so. I play with it for a few minutes, sometimes hours, and then decide to stick with good old JavaScript as it basically does what I want. The number of tricks you can pull using JavaScript still amazes me, even after a good 8 years of useage.

Why I even consider Flash? In theory it should deliver content that's showing-up the same on all platforms. It should give more freedom on manipulating the layout. But it's also painfully slow (the other day I saw a Flash re-make of Deluxe Pacman, the Amd Duron 750 running it had serious trouble keeping it up to speed) from time to time and rather difficult to get something useable.

[amiga_3k]

The biggest problem IE is giving me is the fact that it still doesn't 'understand' transparent PNGs the way Netscape, Firefox and Opera do. Try stacking multiple transparent PNGs and it doesn't understand what's going on. I had programmed a photoalbum using JavaScript using a transparent PNG to add comments on top of the picture. Also I added a transparent controlpanel but for some reason they both appeared opaque in IE7 while on the other browsers it worked like I intended. Some investigation learned that stacking the images was causing the problem.

Another thing that's a bit of a pain is the fact that the CSS property of position absolute and fixed aren't quite working as one might expect when using IE.

The W3C standards are quite a good thing, the shame is that all the browser makers seem to interpret these standards differently.