I was looking at the visitor statistics for this site in Awstats yesterday when I noticed this…

Note: August 2006 results taken on 20/08/2006.

As you can see from the above rudimentary table that took all of 10 seconds to create in Microsoft Excel, Firefox-ko is now kicking IE’s sorry butt! At least amongst anime fans, whom I presume to be the largest demographic represented by this chart.

At the rate it’s going, we might just see a complete reverse of the July 2004 statistics in about two years.

EDIT: The aliens prefer Firefox too.

I changed the default loading.gif of Lightbox (as you may have noticed in the post below) and modified the CSS file as best as I could to fit the new dimensions and it seems to work fine in Firefox. Click here for a demo.

However, on IE everything falls apart…

For some reason, the image sticks out of the box on IE even though the same box size has no problems on Firefox. Gah. I tried everything I could think of with the margins and positioning but it’s still no good. So I gave up.

Here are the parts I modified from lightbox.css, commented lines are the original values:

#outerImageContainer{
position: relative;
background-color: #fff;
width: 300px;
height: 375px;
//height: 250px;
//width: 250px;
margin: 0 auto;
}

#loading{
position: absolute;
top: 10%;
//top: 40%;
left: 0%;
height: 25%;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
line-height: 0;
}

I really have no idea what is wrong with Internet Explorer. Hopefully someone out there does… In the meantime, please get Firefox if you want to see an animated gif of a maid balancing a plate the way it was meant to be seen!

Firefox-ko compels you!