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5/7/2007 11:49 AM
 

Aaronls79 wrote

Well I am not a Web designer at all I didn't do the skin either. I bought it, I haven't even looked inside the skin files.

This brings up another good point.  Purchased skins are often developed to IE as well, I've found several off the shelf that did poorly in one browser or another.  But more important, skins you didn't design often have different ideas behind them, such as the font size in your email address.  Sometimes (okay, many times) you need to adapt the skin to fit your needs.

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5/7/2007 12:39 PM
 

Yes, my experiance with this purchased skin definitely validates that point.

I would say that if I was using DotNetNuke professionally and purchasing skins for sites I was getting paid to do I would have to spend a lot a time tweaking the skin I bought. This was one of those, "I have a friend/son that is a geek lets ask him to make us a web site for our campground." This site exceeded there expectations at a minimal cost and minimal time on my part.

 
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5/8/2007 4:54 PM
 

Ha! reminds me of the good 'ole days a while back when I used an AMD processor. Software drivers kept crashing because clearly no bugger was testing the software on the chips. The situation has probably changed a lot since then, but nowadays I always buy Intel because of painful memories of that bad experience, rather than the reality which is probably that everything is fine now (?).

I think the truth is that you need to develop for both browsers in order to get something good. Opera is a good third. I expect the Apple Mac brigade might just want to jump in and ask "what about safari", and I'd say please help us by giving us a decent PC platform to test on if you want to be taken seriously as a browser! (nb Anybody know how you can test for safari on a PC without resorting to a virualOS or spending more money on hardware?)

Having said that, you never have enough time on your hands, everything is always an ideal but not always practical in real life....

Cheers

Alex

p.s. I like MACS in case anybody thinks I've got it in for them, but I totally detest I-PODS, my old gramophone sound much better and I don't have to wear to little bits of white wire in my head to hear a cheap sound from tinny earphones:)... Hey I used to be a sound engineer once upon a time.



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5/11/2007 5:49 AM
 

Although I test all the skins I create in IE, FF, Opera and Safari, in general if it works in FF it will work in both Opera and Safari.

The only two exceptions I experienced are:

-Safari is very unforgiving when it comes to Javascript.

-Browsers on a Mac don't like a HTML menu over a flash film (keeps flickering)

And I agree on Alex's statement about Safari for PC, but there are other browsers that are not cross platform...

I don't understand why Apple didn't use a gecko base version for their browser.

 

 

 
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5/17/2007 9:50 AM
 

If you paid money for the skin, I would suggest you complain to the seller.

As a paying customer you should not accept a faulty skin. Designers delivering sub-standard skins are a pain for the DNN comunnity as a whole. Make sure the seller understands that you find it totally unfair to pay for a defective product.

- Jesper

 
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