Marcel Winatschek

The Other Version

Was at a friend’s place the other day and checked my site on his Windows PC. Internet Explorer. The nav bar had this thick white stripe straight down the middle, fonts had turned Times New Roman, everything looked completely different from what I was seeing on Safari back home.

I’d been assuming everyone saw what I saw—Safari, Firefox, even the Mac version of Internet Explorer all rendered it basically the same. But standing there looking at his monitor, I realized I had no actual idea what most people were looking at. There was a whole version of my site existing out in the world that I couldn’t see from home, broken in ways I’d never know about.