Bonker Browsers

Yesterday morning, my lovely wife left for work all excited that the office was finally giving her a new computer to replace the ancient and slow paperweight she had been using for far too long. But then, my lovely wife came home from work at the end of the day complaining and swearing and screaming mad because she couldn't figure out how her brand new computer had screwed up her access an important web site. It was a site that she used often for her job and required a log-in. The problem was that all the log in tabs had "fallen off" the screen and she couldn't get to them in order to do her job. Of course, as the resident "expert" at the whole computer thing, she naturally insisted I solve her dilemma. So I fired up my computer to take a look at the site in question. On my computer there was no fall off. She could easily log on. "What the bleep," said she. "No," said I, "the question is... what the browser?" It turns out her new computer uses a different browser system than her old one. But that wasn't the problem. The problem was that the web site wasn't configured properly to run on her new browser application although it worked fine on the old one and it worked fine on my home office system. The next day, she reinstalled the old browser and voila! The point of all this is that if you are running an online business, you had better make sure your web site works with any browser your customers may be using. Either configure the layout to conform to the minimum layouts or test the site on a number of different browser applications to make sure it works the way you want and need it to. Otherwise, your customers will start shopping someplace else.