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Another busy day yesterday and with such long days I tend to start at around 4:30am as the sunrise wakes me up. It started off with lots of computer work as I have a new website design project<\/a> that I’m working on. It’s nice to get the creative juices flowing again and I’m quite enjoying it – that is until it became time to check compatibility with other browsers. Although, to be honest, it worked in most – I tested in all the usual suspects and most were just fine, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera on both PC’s and Macs and the site looked lovely. Safari and Chrome on my iPad and there wasn’t a pixel out of place.<\/p>\n

You’ll notice however that I haven’t mentioned the notorious Internet Explorer yet. Well, I checked it and to my surprise everything was fine on the PC that I use for the weather station which is running Internet Explorer 10. There were a few little misalignments needed in version of Internet Explorer 8 and below due to the Border Box bug present in Internet Explorer, but they were easily fixed with a conditional stylesheet comment and three little tweaks\u00a0just for Internet Explorer. I then checked it on Anna’s laptop which is also IE 10 and despite being the same version of IE a few more tweaks were needed.<\/p>\n

Things were looking good. Everything was fine on IE8 and below, IE 10 was playing nicely. That just left IE9 which Anna happens to be running on her computer at work. I\u00a0asked\u00a0her to check it for me<\/p>\n

After working on the site for a few hours I headed off into Penryhncoch to do some work, gardening, painting and treating garden furniture with wood preservative, along with a few other helpful tasks and some computer technical help too and then it was time for lunch and to finish off the carrot cake I made the other night.<\/p>\n

Anna then sent me a screenshot of the site Id been working on in IE and guess what? Yep,\u00a0you’ve guessed it, things weren’t quite so rosy! Looks as though I’ll have to add another stylesheet just for IE9 -Great! I spent a bit of time working on that but haven’t quite got it sorted yet but it was now time to head out for some training.<\/p>\n

First up was a 38 mile bike ride out to Cwm Rheidol where I did some 1 mile maximum efforts with 5 minute recovery intervals between them.<\/p>\n