huzzah!

[egypturnash]

Last night I finally got around to starting up IE on Rik's machine and seeing how badly the Absinthe site breaks on IE. Which, of course, it does. The vast majority of my traffic is Firefox, but IE accounts for enough that I needed to do something.

This morning I dumped one conditional comment into the head and bang, it worked. Man, I really love having the right tool for the job. IE users get a second or so of broken layout before the "IE7" script kicks in, but that's good enough for me - it probably saved me at least a day or so of swearing at IE as I try to fix it, then swearing some more as the trickery I do for that interfered in the rendering for other browsers!

Also, the comic really starts today, with page 1 showing up. So, yeah, read it on the website or via 5glasses, the lj feed, or via whatever online comics aggregator you may prefer. This is probably the last time I'll tell you where to go read it until I do an actual attempt to promote it around page 10 or so.

Comments

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the official launch! It popped up in Google Reader for me a while ago. Now I want more. :D

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

There's a pretty big chunk of 'more' queued up. Think of it as a drip feed. *grin*

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

What kind of brain-damaged half-ape still uses IE?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but Google Analytics says they make up 18.7% of Absinthe's traffic so far.

And there's one person using a PSP.