Once again, I found myself launching IE6 to test a potential bug in Firefox and once again I was confronted with how horrible this blog looks in IE. It's tollerable in Opera and Safari and looks (to my eye) pretty darned sexy in Firefox ;-)
Well, sorry to all of you IE users, sort of. I hope there aren't too many of you. Given that I don't have any stats for this blog, it would be nice if you all could chime in with how you read this blog. If you wouldn't mind (and that includes all of you pulling my rss feeds) please take a minute and let me know how you most commonly read these posts.
Thanks a lot.
Oh, and I'm gonna try to get to handing out all those Gmail invites I promised a few days ago. If you still need one and haven't posted to that thead, now's the time.
Posted by asa at January 2, 2005 05:06 PMI receive your blog in Thunderbird, so I get alerted when you post something. I also use thunderbird if I want to find an old post.
Most of the time however, I launch Firefox, type the keyword 'asa' in the address bar, and there is the little red fox!
Posted by: Michaël on January 2, 2005 05:20 PMBuilt-in RSS reader in Thunderbird, which renders this blog very nice indeed.
Posted by: Pshemekan on January 2, 2005 05:21 PMRSS through thunderbird but I frequently load it up in Firefox to see the comments and stuff.
I also have a few gmail invites, so feel free to ask.
Posted by: Vincent on January 2, 2005 05:40 PMI have a bot checking your feed every 20minutes, and then I read it with Firefox. but when I checked your weblog in IE, it was the same as what I see in FireFox... did you changed it to work in IE too?
I read your blog via an RSS reader extension called Habari Xenu (http://habarixenu.mozdev.org/) that runs under Firefox and Mozilla Seamonkey. HB simplifies the process of adding feeds, because you can just drag the feed link to a defined folder in your bookmarks in the Sidebar, and Presto!, they're available for reading. (The Sage extension reader does that as well, but it's FF specific.)
I get the link to your blog via Mozillazine feedHouse.
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Dennis
I read your posts with Firefox only.
Posted by: Jason on January 2, 2005 06:13 PMThunderbird RSS (plain text only) polling every 60min, and Firefox for pictures etc. (although my eyes... because the page is quite... colorful.)
RSS in Bloglines notifies me, though I usually read anything longer than one or two sentences in Firefox. I have to say that I'm not a big fan of the colour-scheme. Fortunately it's not the colours that matter, it's the words.
Posted by: Rory Parle on January 2, 2005 06:21 PMHi, I just started subscribing to the feed, via Bloglines. I also use Firefox to read the full page. Thanks for your recent article on why tweaking Firefox isn't always such a good idea!
Posted by: Elle Wiz on January 2, 2005 06:25 PMI use thunderbird at home to read your blog and occasionaly bring it up in Firefox to read comments. At work, I only use firefox since I don't use an RSS reader there. I'm thinking about using Habari Xenu for RSS feeds at work.
Posted by: Kipp Howard on January 2, 2005 06:25 PMThunderbird.
Posted by: Aaron on January 2, 2005 06:26 PMI use Firefox, via Mozillazine's feedhouse. I'd stop avoiding your blog's main page if you got rid of the lime green (nothing too wrong with lime by itself, but the lime powerfully ... contrasts... with the rest of the color scheme...).
Posted by: Axord on January 2, 2005 06:29 PMBloglines and Firefox; I open entries that look interesting in a new tab.
Posted by: Andy King on January 2, 2005 06:32 PMLive bookmarks in Firefox on Linux...
Posted by: Dan Bodoh on January 2, 2005 06:35 PMrss feed through thunderbird (does anyone know of an thunderbird extension that would automatically show the newest post when you click on the blog name in the left side bar?)
Posted by: scott on January 2, 2005 06:43 PMLatest Nightly build of Firefox on WinXP SP2
Posted by: Steve Mason on January 2, 2005 06:44 PMWhat is Internet Explorer? ;)
Posted by: dovix on January 2, 2005 06:54 PMI have the planet.mozillazine.org RSS Feed on my.yahoo.com.
Posted by: sunilonln on January 2, 2005 06:56 PMI read you via Bloglines, which I am usually browsing in either Safari or Firefox.
Posted by: Peter on January 2, 2005 06:59 PMBloglines and Firefox.
Posted by: Greg on January 2, 2005 07:02 PMI read the RSS feed with Thundebird which is so much better than the Outlook/Newsgator setup my parents used that I switched them over the holidays.
I have some gmail invites also if anyone needs one.
Posted by: ashley on January 2, 2005 07:03 PMI read via RSS in aKregator for KDE. If I want to view any comments or the full article aKregator will invoke the KHTML engine (3.3.2) to do so. I can detect no appreciable difference between KHTML and Gecko, other than a slightly different treatment of fonts.
Btw, can you do something about the bright green at the top? It's awful, especially at night. Luckily it can be scrolled out of sight quickly.
Posted by: David P James on January 2, 2005 07:08 PMthunderbird
Posted by: Anko on January 2, 2005 07:19 PMHahaha. I finally decided to fire up IE to see what all that fuss you raise periodically about your blog is, and I've to agree. It's horrendous. I'm glad I don't have to put up with it!
Posted by: Tsee on January 2, 2005 07:35 PMI use sage in firefox and occasionally open a link in firefox itself.
BTW, I hadn't read this blog in about a year before I "discovered" rss, and now I check it at least every day. Good stuff.
Posted by: tolremeno on January 2, 2005 07:58 PMOmniweb 5 beta 5
Posted by: David Smith on January 2, 2005 08:38 PMOn the Mac: NewsFire
On the PC: Sharpreader
On the Phone: FeedBurner Mobile.
Like some others - Bloglines and Firefox.
Posted by: Magnus on January 2, 2005 09:19 PMI read you through RSS using Bloglines and Mozilla Firefox. Occasionally, I'll jump to an article rather than read the text inside my Bloglines view.
Posted by: Ben Combee on January 2, 2005 09:31 PMPlain old Gecko (Firefox or Mozilla), by just coming directly to the URL (no RSS feed readers--I have feeds set up in Thunderbird (including this one :) but I never remember to use it.
Posted by: Neil Paris on January 2, 2005 09:36 PMSame as many: Bloglines and Firefox. ;-)
Posted by: minghong on January 2, 2005 09:44 PMI read your posts in FeedDemon & Bloglines.
I'm rarely here in a browser, but when I am it's firefox.
Posted by: Michael Koziarski on January 2, 2005 09:45 PMI read you from Bloglines.
Posted by: Bernie Zimmermann on January 2, 2005 10:09 PM60% of the time in a LiveJournal-grabbed RSS feed (in Firefox)
30% of the time in Sage, from either PlanetMoz or the blog.
10% of the time viewing the blog in Firefox.
I read the RSS feed using Bloglines, with 'Firefox'. I click through to reading an entry on this site if (a) I think it's likely to have interesting comments; (b) it has a circular image in it and I want to see how the text flows round it; or (c) there's something in the entry making it render too wide to be viewed conveniently in the narrow Bloglines frame.
Posted by: Smylers on January 2, 2005 11:45 PMBloglines from Firefox 1.0. Used to use Sage.
Thunderbird's support for RSS just doesn't suit my needs.
I use NetNewsWire Lite to check your RSS feed, and then load anything I want to read in Safari. Yep, hehe. Firefox still needs a bit of interface polish to be really Mac-like. ;-)
Posted by: Roger Johansson on January 3, 2005 12:17 AMFirst off, I need to say that code-wise, I am an ASP.NET/C# dev and I do a little LAMP but very little. However, Firefox has been my default browser since the days when it was Firebird. The RSS reader I use uses IE to display the feed but if I want more than the feed (which is broken when you use images in a post) in something other than the default black-on-white text, the aggragator opens a new window (or tab) in Firefox.
So I haven't really seen your site in IE unless you count the B&W feedreader version which is kinda broke when you put an image in a post.
Bloglines all the way here!
Posted by: Rob... on January 3, 2005 12:41 AMRSS with Bloglines mostly.
Posted by: Jussi Kukkonen on January 3, 2005 01:24 AMFirefox using Sage to check for entries. Entry read on actual page for entry.
Posted by: Cow on January 3, 2005 01:45 AMI type "notblog" in the address bar. :-D
Hello Asa,
I use RSS Bandit which I guess uses IE'rendering engine because the images with text floated along a curve on the side look completely messed up!
Bloglines, then I click through the URL to read in firefox.
Posted by: Firas on January 3, 2005 03:49 AMI read the feed in Opera's RSS client, sometimes opening items for later reading as a background browser page.
Like many others, Firefox and Thunderbird.
Posted by: Jude on January 3, 2005 05:28 AMFirefox with Bloglines, or sometimes FeedDemon with Gecko enabled (via the Mozilla ActiveX Control).
Posted by: Neil T. on January 3, 2005 08:36 AMAt home I use Thunderbird's RSS stuff - then open it in Firefox if I want to read the comments. At work I just used Firefox (I'm not allowed Thunderbird, and we use Exchange so it wouldn't be much use anyway).
Posted by: Olly on January 3, 2005 09:15 AMrss in bloglines!
Posted by: eliot on January 3, 2005 09:35 AMOur organisation wants to dissuade web builders from using IE-unfriendly code.
Your website is on our black list, unfortunately. We hereby would like to urge you change this for the sake of our fellow web-users!
I read with Opera's RSS client, and whenever something strikes me as instersting enough I open the page in Opera.
Posted by: Holger Dors on January 3, 2005 11:58 AMRead the text in NetNewsWire on my PowerBook. This is probably the first time I've seen your page in a browser, and that browser is Safari.
Posted by: Nate on January 3, 2005 12:22 PMLive Bookmarks in Firefox.
Posted by: Frank on January 3, 2005 12:29 PMI generally read your posts in bloglines, though I do open the site in a new tab in some instances (Using Fx naturally :)
I use RSS in TB to get the notification, but open in FF to read. However, for RSS feeds that let TB load the actual page just like FF, I normally just read within TB. Though, I must say, it's quite good to see more sites like yours that noticably degrade, yet maintain full accessibility in IE :-).
Posted by: Lachlan Hunt on January 3, 2005 08:13 PMThunderbird RSS reader. Sucks that comments don't show :-(
Posted by: tekumse on January 6, 2005 08:47 AM