Sleeping Monkey Presents...
Sleeping Monkey’s MOSe
May 15 2007The term MOSe stands for Mozilla, Opera, Safari Enhancements. It basically means providing a more enhanced version of a website to those browsers capable of viewing it. And Sleeping Monkey is my first site to take advantage of it!
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows is the most notable exception to the rules of standard design. It’s unable to understand advanced CSS, unable to understand negative margins on elements, and most importantly for SM, unable to render transparent PNGs. This all adds to up to very bad support for SM in IE 6 and any other browsers with similar deficiencies. Fortunately, simply because of it’s deficiencies, we can serve it another stylesheet that can re-define what it should look like, thus rendering the site differently for different users. For example, view the two images below (click for more details).
The first image is SM as most people would see it – the MOSe enabled version. It’s served to the most common browsers, notably Firefox, Safari, and Opera (hence MOSe). Now that IE 7 has been released, maybe it should be changed to MOSI7e? Or not… Anyway, the second image is what is served to browsers less capable – notice the nice message on the right mentioning the fact that they really ought to be using a newer more up-to-date version.
So there you go, you don’t need flashy effects for a site to look good, but it definately helps.
Ineke
I honestly did try to read this blog, but it got too clever!
However, I did look at the pretty pictures, the sleeping monkey logo isn’t anywhere on the second one, is that intentional?
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Dan
’tis looking good, even in IE, how often can you say that!
Ink makes a good point though, might be an idea to implement it somewhere, is a rather nice image :)
Dan
Although I guess by just commenting without an avatar I have fixed that issue!