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Very nice :) Well Done

Very nice indeed. Great visual content, great information. Can’t ask for more than that.

Not sure I would have clobbered IE users with that message though, just because they won’t see the fancy corner on the events list.

I can undersand why you’d do it from a technical perspective, but would you do the same one sites aimed at non-industry people? I would worry that they’d feel as if they’d done something wrong.

Genuinely interested to hear what others think about that.

Looking forward to Elliots work permeating the rest of the Carson portfolio.

I think the message is okay, it’s not too intrusive and it gets the message across. It’d be better if it actually linked to the downloads for the suggested browsers though.

I’ve spotted a small CSS bug - hover on the Climate Care image and it gets an orange underline, which jumps all the text below out by 1px.

Great site! Elliot’s really going to get the chance to shine with these pages.

Hey guys, thanks for all the kind words and the bug-spotting! Yep, I’ll get on to those bugs asap… :)

With regards to the IE thing (and perhaps this should be a post in itself), this is something I talked about at the most recent Oxford Geek Night (video | slides) and it’s a big discussion. Essentially I think that a really subtle ‘warning badge’ like we have here is an fair way of making IE users aware that they’re missing out. Sure, it’s not by much (although more so in IE6 than IE7, as you might expect) but why not offer users the choice of a better browsing experience?

I agree about the message needing some links in there and I’ll get round to adding those at some point next week. My reason for this is that I want to write the links in client-side with Javascipt. Why not just put them in the div and just hide it off-screen for non IE user, you ask? Well, I could do that, but the problem is that the error message is then embedded directly into the markup, which is pretty bad practice - it means users might potentially see the message even if they’re not using IE; for instance if they’re viewing an unstyled page… at which point it becomes irrelevant anyway.

Yep, I think a full post about this is needed! :)

I think the ie message is a certainly an odd thing to state. I use IE, because, like it or not the majority of users are using it and therefore it’s something which needs to be catered for. And so I use IE to test and as such it has become my default browser.

By way of an example, I would not appreciate TV broadcasters telling me that HD is better than the standard broadcast and that I should consider using an HD tv everytime I switched my set on. It’s just a bit annoying, it may be true, but it is still annoying.

I don’t mean to be rude, but why not just make it work for IE (the majority of users)? I know it’s extra work, but sadly, that’s what web page mark-up has become, an accomodation of all the variables out there.

Anyway, I like the design (even in IE).

But they do tell you to use HD. Every channel I watch that offers HD programming puts a little logo or blurb about it at the beginning of every show.

Hey Ewan, No problem. Glad you could make it.