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Lack of explorer compatibility
These forums are somewhat incompatible with Internet Explorer. Though the layout seems ok for Firefox, in IE, the forums are very difficult to navigate. The blueish gray of the background is the only colour that can be seen, rather than the tan "boxes" that surround them. There are two borders, bottom and left, but no other clues to this tan. There seems to be also a width problem with boxes, as sometimes the text of parts of the forums gets squished together unnaturally. Example, just now I checked the front page, and there was a whole lot of text pushed in underneath the links to the "Real Life" section of the forums. As well, the mugshots of various players appear hovering oddly on the left hand side of the screen. Only ever one at a time.
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Sadly, in the new mobile first, cutting edge CSS design, IE is getting left out. I think a lot of developers resented the IE6 days where IE was less cutting edge but still had market share, so that's why some developers are now actually leaving IE behind.
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If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
While hopefully the discrepancy will be fixed, you'd probably appreciate switching to something like Chrome. It's just cleaner and more compatible.
People have plenty of reasons for picking whatever browser they want to pick. I neither like the aesthetics of Chrome, nor trust its publishers, so I only make use of it for certain situations. Not that it is relevant. As a company, you want to be accessible. Accessibility is about making things useable for the customer, regardless of what browser she wants to use. I could certainly change to Firefox (and indeed, it's what I'm using currently), but I shouldn't have to change. As it is, the IE format is simply bad, and should be changed.
It's great.
I'd kill for IE9.
And I know the woes of backwards incompatibility, considering I'm finding myself getting fewer and fewer updates for software on my 'outdated' XP install [And let's just not talk about the OSX install...]
And as an aside, if you're really worried about the 'paper trail' you're leaving on the Internet getting disseminated by Google and every other random tiny tracker it's a little late. The only way to avoid it is not go on the internet or even use a computer, total information awareness is the present. If you don't want someone to know about something only way is to not do it ~shrug~
NARF!
Except that IE should be able to handle CSS3 in an appropriate manner. As the list here suggests, the differences between IE 9, FF, Opera, Chrome and Safari is minimal. Of course, IE does have a responsibility to ensure that their browser functions with the latest iteration of HTML and CSS, but so too should you be careful not to force away late adopters.
Secondly, it is not the "paper trail" I worry so much about, as the technicalities behind it. When I downloaded Chrome to give it a go, I was surprised to find it trying to auto-install itself before giving me the opportunity to read the ToS, as well as installing things I specifically did not want to have installed on my computer. Then I read a ToS that gave google a frightening liberty to use the information they gathered up from my use of the browser. That's why I do not trust Chrome.
And frankly, this discussion is irrelevant. I'm going to check the computers at my school, and see if IE has any problems on them. If Razeon doesn't have trouble, it might be my PC, though I have no issues on Firefox. I'll also mention that the more weird problems I noticed to begin with seems to have gone away for now. It's not perfect. The tan box that goes between the background and saves me from squinting black text on blue still isn't there, as an example, but it certainly feels better, even in IE.