A quick note about Firefox 3

The last time we wrote about browser compatibility it was to point out that we do not support Internet Explorer 6. That hasn’t changed, and we’re both happy and discouraged to report that since April 1, Internet Explorer 6 has accounted for 20.1 percent of visits to Backyard Post. Happy because that’s a significantly lower percentage than at The Palm Beach Post’s main site, discouraged because it’s Internet Explorer 6. It was released in 2001, people! Come on! Seriously!

At the opposite end of the browser spectrum you have Firefox 3, which was just released today. As is the case with Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7 and Safari 3, Backyard Post looks fine in Firefox 3. The only difference between it and the previous version of Firefox is that it’s not rendering parcels on our real estate maps in the green-yellow-red color scale we use to very generally represent sale prices. Here’s what you’ll see in Firefox 3:

We have the same glitch with Safari 3. (But only 4.8 percent of you are using that browser.) Here’s how it looks in Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, which is the way we intended it:

We’ll get to all the browser-specific bugs and glitches eventually, promise. Even IE 6. Maybe. The bottom line is that Backyard Post remains very much in a testing phase. We’re just doing our sausage-making, as they say, out here in the semi-open where anyone can watch. So feel free to use any modern browser you choose, and let us know if you notice anything funky.