Drupal works better in FireFox than IE | November 28th, 2005
I’ve been playing around with a Bryght site recently, really just trying to learn about Drupal as it’s been called a Web 2.0 content management system. It’s really cool, I’m stoked on the tagging, taxonomy and aggregation features! Basically I’ve been trying to help my friend Jamie, who’s not a techie, convert our online ski portal from SpeedSite to a Bryght site. Glaring usability issues aside, which I hope to one day hope to help Kris, Boris and the gang with, I’ve discovered recently that both the admin tool and the public facing websites work better in FireFox than Internet Explorer. The first thing I noticed is using the back button in the admin area doesn’t really work in IE, kind of annoying but ok. Then I was on UrbanVancouver this morning trying to post an event. So i went through the process created an account, but then couldn’t find a button to add event or anything! I was starting to feel like an idiot and was about email the site admin or something when I found a how-to page where it clearly stated there should be a “create content” link on the left side. I switched to FireFox and voila all the links appeared, and I post the Buy Local event.
Anyway Drupal, as much as you might dislike IE or MS or whatever, you need to support IE it’s still the lions share of the market. Not supporting IE only disuades your average user from switching. I’d use FireFox more but I have to always run 2 browsers and because of issues like this. And more stuff is supported in IE still.
PS. I know our ajax grid doesn’t work in FireFox yet…we’re working on it round the clock;)
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November 28th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Drupal rocks, but the themes leave something to be desired, and this is what causes all the problems. They use div’s and span’s in inproper ways, leaving cross-browser compatiblitly some to be desired. What ever happened to just doing a layout in a table, to that is sizes and works well in both browsers? 🙂
Let me know if you need any help with Drupal, as I setup a couple sites with it now.
November 28th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Yeah, we need to pony up some money for great, cross platform themes….it’s definitely not Drupal core, it’s the theme layer.
The “back” button issue with admin is a new one on me….I’ll hav e to check into that. Can you tell me which theme you saw that in? I’ll file a bug against the theme and get it fixed.
UrbanVancouver is our forgotten stepchild…there is a new theme in progress under the hood which is meant to be much more approachable.
November 28th, 2005 at 6:16 pm
Hey Xian,
Thanks for the offer. You know how it goes css, divs, spans and all that are the future;-) We’re not using the final theme yet, but I may come back to you for help we have our design in there.
Thanks.
Andre.
November 28th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Hey Boris,
Darn themes, they always get ya with CM systems. The theme is this one: http://doglotion-com.bryght.net/. This site is alpha (aka we’re not going to use that theme). But I think it’s one of the standard Drupal themes with that green blob for a logo.
Boris, Boris, Boris…never forget your stepchildren! I look forward to the new theme at UrbanVancouver.
Thanks for the comments!
Andre.
November 28th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
glad you’re playing with the tool now ‘dre. good work. let’s figure out a way to get some of your fancy smancy ajax widgets into some great new bryght templates sooner than later.
and xtian… get in touch with me about being a bryght reseller.
kk+
December 1st, 2005 at 2:11 pm
Totally Kris! We’ll figure something out in the not too distant future. Anyone have any thoughts on special open source licensing when commercial software is applied to OS projects?? I’d be interested.
For the record I think Drupal and Bryght are great and I’m going to be evaluating and using them a lot in the coming year!
Andre.