Browser Tests
Although I use my default browser (Firefox) for preliminary testing and experimentation the site is actually built using my venerable copies of Dreamweaver MX and Western Civilization's Stylemaster (For CSS). Between HTML and CSS there are way too many tags, commands and syntax requirements to try and do this from memory. Further, managing a site with over a hundred pages would be fairly impossible without the template capabilities built into Dreamweaver or comparable editors.
HTML and CSS are the building blocks of the internet while the browser interprets the code and displays the text, images and links on the user's screen. Due to human perverseness different browsers (and even different versions of the same browser) “read” the same, identical code in wildly varying ways.
I tested this site with seven different browsers: Google Chrome, Firefox, IE, IE 64 bit, Lynx (text only), Opera and Safari.
Earlier versions of Internet Explorer, especially running in older computers with lower screen resolutions, tend to run text off the page, place “div” elements in places they have no business being and have problems rendering text fonts in the proper sizes. The current version does marginally better, but still has issues.
The Opera browser may be good in cell phones, but it totally screws the HTML/CSS code in this site beyond recognition. Maybe the designers cribbed a bit from the Microsoft team.
The only fault I could find with Google's Chrome was it has no menu bar, and when calling web pages from the local hard drive CNTRL “O” is the only way to go. But Chrome's rendering of the site was spot on.
Firefox and Safari flawlessly executed the code, joining Chrome in faithful renderings of standards based code. Lynx, as a text only browser, can at least show the web designer that the site links, text and alternate captioning are all in place. Plus, it gives a designer a look at what the site looks like for people who turn off images.
One final note: In testing I discovered that the easiest and quickest way to stream MP3 files from the site was to have Apple Quick Time installed. Without Quick Time Windows Media Player gets into the act, forcing a download, then WMP wants to launch itself, the Library and everything else that can screw up such a simple thing as listening to one of my songs. Not that many people want to listen to my music and I want to keep it as simple as I can.
My Point Being:
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For an indicator of how much respect the American people receive from their government, news outlets and entertainment media just watch fifteen minutes of American TV and all those dirty little suspicions will be confirmed.
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Site works best with Firefox, worst with Internet Explorer: