More things that just don't work

Okay, it seems they've now broken Facebook on Chrome. It works fine on IE8 but nothing really goes beyond the home page in Chrome. Not even any links seem to work, and the IM features are all dead, nothing happens when trying to open the list of people online. I hear it's bugged up before, but never happened to me. More shit in the new layout's fan, way to go!

Speaking of web design, I ran across yet another prime example why you should not use iframes for anything they're not explicitly designed for. A website someone I know has made, but I won't disclose more on that, just stick to the page. It behaves very badly atleast when the browser window is small enough, since the parent page and the iframes with more contents than fits one frame scroll separately. Just imagine trying to scroll a page and only a part of if starts moving, or the whole page moves without revealing any new contents. It's just plain confusing if you haven't figured out how it works! Not to mention it's apparently designed thinking everyone has a widescreen monitor, lucky the overflow on 1024 screen width is only images, but it still looks bad and is generally very unpractical. No idea of scaling of any sort, no siree...

So the deal here is this is just the newest version of a site that's been remade a few times by this person and once by me. I made her a functional, remotely updateable PHP page and all, but apparently she heard one "it's not good" comment and instantly decided to take over the webdesign side again, without even asking me to fix ANYTHING. Whenever I did on the page she asked why about, and when I explained why I had done so I just got an "oh, alright" type answer. Never actually asked me to change anything. But then suddenly it's not good, and has to be replaced by what anyone with any sense of a webdesigner would be plain apalled about technically.

Then, as the iframes strike back after updating the contents and finding browsers tend to cache pages the visitors are adviced to Internet Explorer, which "I wouldn't otherwise recommend to anyone." Oh really, now this is an interesting take. Since IE7 it's been actually an OK browser, even more so with IE8. And it even beat Firefox and Chrome in Microsoft's speed tests! I somehow doubt the picture those tests give, but I don't think the results are downright faked. It's competitive alright by my reckoning, tho I don't really know Firefox any better than I know IE8.

People just don't have the guts to admit it, I bet, but there are such who would agree with me I'm sure. Atleast among those not biased by how they think of the whole thing and the people running it. I might not share the warmest of them all feelings after this redesign mess and a few other personal things, but I still am one of those people too.

Bottom line is, if you want to make fancy looking websites that actually work do them right from the start or skip it. I can't say I'm an excellent webdesigner or anything, but I know a bad design when I see one, and if I know how to fix it I'm not afraid to voice my opinion.