Frustration abounds…

Hours of design time…

Highs and lows of trouble shooting…

And finally having to redo the whole stinking thing…

Big frustration!

So I an designing a new Child Theme for Hybrid…happy as a clam, because it is coming along in a way that even I am amazed. I have discovered hooks and actions that I never thought I would. I am very proud of myself.I have figured out how to add javascript to the function page…look at me go!

And then the bomb drops…it really was my mistake…I didn’t read all the information in the comments section of the particular javascript comments. Seems there is an issue with IE 7…IE7! Okay I will give you IE6…it is time we put that one to bed…but IE7…it just never occurred to me that there would be a problem…testing away in Firefox with firebug…I pop on over to IE to make sure it looks okay…and the bomb drops…it does not work in IE7! Works like stink in IE8…but crashes like the Gimmli Glider in 7….I am not impressed.

Okay…so what is this rant all about? I understand that there are some people out there that don’t like IE…that is fine…even I have my moments…but the facts remain that a huge amount of people use it. As a designer I have to take into account that many of my visitors are going to be on my site in IE. What fries my goat is the developers out there that will not trouble shoot for IE out of principal…IT IS NOT GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON BOZO! And you call yourself a professional…!

Why would you release a plugin or software and not let everyone know the KNOWN ISSUES? Maybe then I would not have spent hours using your stupid script.

So what have I learned? I made to many assumptions…and didn’t get all the facts…what is it they say about “assume”? It makes and ass out of you and me…

Okay…so back to the old script that does work…and about 3 hours of retro fitting…groan…………