As much as I want to summarize this entire post by saying “Internet Explorer 7 is fucking gay,” it won’t really explain why Microsoft’s latest release of IE crushed my hopes of less frustrating work.

This blog looks fine on Firefox and Opera. Even on Linux (Firefox) and Mac (Safari), the only glitch is the search field which gets a bit wider than it should be. Heck, it even looks fine on IE6.

On IE7, the footer at the bottom by some means of forbidden arcane magic moves up considerably and covers certain portions of the site. I have no idea how it got there and why it’s only happening on this supposedly improved browser. I played around with my CSS to try and fix it, but I already had this feeling that it would amount to nothing.

My temporary quick fix is this conditional comment:

<!–[if lte IE 6]>
   Footer code goes here
<![endif]–>

I enclosed my footer in that so IE7 would ignore the code and seal off whatever ancient magics put in place by Microsoft’s development team. I’ll keep it in there until I figure out exactly what the problem is and fix it. Not the best course of action, but I doubt anyone will miss seeing the copyright text and page rendering speed for the time being.