Schonhose

Since my photoblog layout is based upon a very old Mootools version I decided to redesign and reprogram the layout, switching from Moo to jQuery. The initial sliding sidebar along with some other options were quickly established and proved to be ok in Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

Enter the dreaded Internet Explorer, currently at version 8. After having the luxury to debug my JS using Firebug I have to say JS debugging on IE still pretty much sucks. Sure, it will give you errors, but these are so cryptic I couldn’t understand them if my life depended on them. Luckily we have Google at our disposal, so a quick search around the net showed several people having similar issues. So that is a good thing, it means we’re not alone in this.

But after reading several threads it just boiled down to one thing: trail and error. Shape and reshape the code until it finally starts working. It took me several hours, but now the code is working on all browsers, including IE 7 and IE 8. Looking back 1/5th of the time was used to created the page so it worked and the other 4/5th of the time was spend debugging IE specific issues (a fact well known as illustrated by the image below).