stevedebi Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 They may not know -- owning and running a web site is a major effort that a lot of folks do not take the time to do right. You really need to test it with ALL major browsers, as well as both Macs and PCs (and all browsers for both of them, as Chrome on a Mac operates differently than on a PC). And you need to keep testing, as your advertisers will change the way they serve ads (assuming you generate revenue from ads, which is why I do NOT do this on the sites I run). It's a job that takes at LEAST 10-20 hours per week and most owners will not do this. Even with all that work I get thrown by the changes (mostly by IE) that come my way, but I because I don't serve ads (and thus no popups or otherwise annoying junk) it's a whole lot easier. Then again, I'm a former IT manager, so I know what I'm doing.You know, if you use simple HTML controls, the site will work with any browser. Webmasters keep using "tricks" that only work with one type of browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted May 31, 2016 Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 It's a bit hard to program just HTML for a forum -- you need to understand how to do data management which ain't easy (heck, there are programmers which ONLY do database stuff. Was that person for a few years). I don't blame forum owners for using one of the many canned packages out there (can't really tell which one this is). Just a normal web page is easy-peasy with HTML. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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