A couple of days ago I finally checked out my current site on my PC at work. Sure, I could have tried IE7 through the magic of Fusion, but I don’t have my History of Internet Explorer VM on my MacBook Pro. I like their products as much as the next geek, but seriously — where the hell is my snapshot manager?

Anyway, my website. I learned something important when I looked at it in both IE6 and IE7. Okay, I learned two things. First, the background was more peculiar in IE7 than IE6. Strangely, the background was doing what it was supposed to in IE6. In IE7, on the other hand, the entire page flipped from the main background to the footer background whenever the top pixel of the footer was above a certain point.

Second, the color was wrong. If your monitor’s color reproduction matches the one I have at work, the simple, light green gradient is gone, and The History of Human Nausea expressed as a 182 byte PNG takes its place. Otherwise, things looked okay. I haven’t decided yet whether I’m going to switch to colors that degrade gracefully or just declare certain monitors as too lousy to bother with. I’ll probably fix the IE7 issue though. Eventually.

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