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Information Technology: The Importance of using different browsers and operating systems

Published: Aug 24, 2008 - 12:38 AM

After getting completely frustrated with trying to get an image management module working in Zikula, I decided to take a break and install Linux Mint on my laptop.

Whoa, this site looked like crap when using Firefox in Linux...

I typically test sites using the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox on one of my Windows systems and call it done. OSX is something I'll never do again unless I get PAID, and Linux has just never done if for me.

Every now and then though I'll check out a few distributions of Linux just to see if there's been any improvements. I usually stick to playing with a few Live CDs, but the latest Linux Mint seemed fancy enough to play with for a bit, so I installed it. As with different operating systems and even different distributions of Linux, the font support is always just a little different. Since I based the theme for this site on SeaBreeze, I just assumed it would be ok.

I made some changes to the stylesheet to make things a little better for the Linux Hippies, but I think I'll have to tweak things to get the best results.

Since I'm leaving town for a week tomorrow, I guess that will have to wait.

 
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