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Why this blog doesn’t decently render in Chrome

UPDATE: Vinny sent me a script that fixes it. Much thanks!

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Right after I wrote a neato article on Chrome and Google Bookmarks, my blog stopped “working” in Chrome. I finally figured out why.

Apparently, the script set that powers my dropdown menu—the ”Accessible Website Dropdown Menu”—is written to look for the string “Apple Computer” in a browser’s useragent and serve webkit-oriented stuff to those browsers. But Chrome now lists “Google inc.” in the user agent.

More details are in the bug report I filed (which, rightly, was marked “works as intended,” since it’s a script problem, not a Chrome bug).

If any folks more adept at JS than I am want to either help me fix this or—better yet—help the UDM folks fix it, that’d be super .

- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 20:45 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Geekery
- Commented on by 15 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

Comment from Wysz Mountain View, CA [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	You may enjoy this fun, somewhat related read about the user-agent string. - Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 21:18 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Adam San Francisco [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Ah, yep, did read that. Gah, so complicated! - Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 21:20 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Adam San Francisco [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	w00t… awesome BLADAM-reader (and hella smart colleague) Vinny sent me a fix! y’all let me know if you see any continued funkiness, please. Thanks! - Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 22:30 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Vinny Singapore [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Thanks for the shoutout ‘twas a simple fix ... happy to help any time - Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 at 3:03 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Angelina Maben India [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Another good post. Thanks Vinny - Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 at 3:24 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from John [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Still broken in Opera :( (I hope I filled the fields out properly, all I can see is the big comment box - Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 at 13:59 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Jeniffer Mumbai [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Thanks vinny. You solve my problems. - Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 4:59 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Mark business [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Did notice it wasn’t working in chrome. Its good now - Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 20:26 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Homes for Sale [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Enjoy buddy now it’s working, well thanks for the code. - Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 21:00 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member JohnT [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	I’m afraid to check how my sites look in Chrome, but I’ll have to do it sooner or later . I hope there are not too many issues with CSS and JS. - Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 15:16 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Brian Krassenstein Krassenstein Inc [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	My site was rendering weird as well, but then I contacted google support and within 2 days they fixed whatever the problem was. You may want to report a problem as well. - Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 at 13:04 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Dani [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	dont Work in Opera - Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 16:44 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from member Adam San Francisco [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	Gah! Thanks for the info Dani (and others who have recently mentioned this to me as well). I will try to figure out why the menu is now not working in Opera [sigh]. - Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 18:35 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Abby Nashville TN [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	I’m not an early adopter - I like to wait a bit when something new comes out and people have a chance to identify any bugs that need to be fixed. I just embraced Firefox last year and am happy with it. I guess I need a good reason to switch to Chrome. Any thoughts? - Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 23:12 [ Permalink to this comment ]
Comment from Adam G [ BLADAM Profile \| URL ]	I am called by Bladam by someone. it was a derivative of Black Adam I am not black though, I am white. inside joke type thing Some say it reminds them of bladder - Posted on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 16:54 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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