I have been asked by someone to make them a website that is responsive. They like the "Birdie" responsive theme so I have adapted that to their needs. After doing a bit of work rejigging it and filling it with the content provided I get an email saying "the site looks appalling, I can't use this. It's not formatted right and it looks like <expletive of your choice here>"
So after panicking, and looking through all the code to see where my mistake was, viewing it in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE10, and on my iPad and WP7.8 I found no formatting errors. So I go back to him and say that there are no issues at all. He is adamant that it looks like rubbish.
At this point I start to get a cold sweat, fear creeping up my spine..nervously I ask what browser he uses. Dreading the answer. He retorts "IE8 of course" *cue dramatic music*. Which he claims it still the most popular browser and 'everyone' uses it! (he doesn't have a TARDIS or DeLorean, so he can't be a time traveler which was my initial thought at hearing this) and he won't accept that IE has lost market share to Chrome and Firefox...even with the w3c statistics.
And herein lies my issue. Is it possible to get a responsive site to look right in IE8? I've loaded up the IE8 viewer in IE10 and it does look terrible. But I'm not sure what to do. Do I design a separate site just for IE8 that isn't responsive or tell him he can't have it responsive at all?
Somebody help me before I have a break down.
the site is here: www.johncarrolldesigns.co.uk/newsite/index.html
Simon,
“If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.”
“If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.”
), what exactly ended up being the solution to your original IE8 problem?
