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  • Humanhand

    Not in the least but telling someone their entire IT system needs to come out from the IE 5 cave isnt going over so well.

    • jesus. W3 stopped getting statistics on that browser. it's less than .1%7point341/8
      In the USA.pylon2/8
      it's 10 years old FFS7point343/8
      They still drive cars from the fifties in Cuba, mate.pylon4/8
      sorry i wasn't responding to you, just general stupidity in an IT dept7point345/8
      Agreed, its a fools errand.Humanhand6/8
      no worries, 7. I'm just saying that we as westerners are on the forefront of many things — many things which we consider 'standard' or 'normal'.pylon7/8
      *standard* or *normal*.pylon8/8
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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:02 p.m. – Permalink
  • amullins

    http://www.positioniseverything.…

    • it's a hideous site but has some good content.amullins
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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:04 p.m. – Permalink
  • 303

    In terms of IE just consider 6 and 7; For IE6, don't use hacks anymore; just write other css file with specific fixes for IE6 and apply it with HTML conditional comment - here is good resource: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/co…

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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:05 p.m. – Permalink
  • Gordy22

    Use conditional comments - easiest way.

    http://www.quirksmode.org/css/co…

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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:05 p.m. – Permalink
  • uan

    Is IE5 still around? not seen a copy in years I think...
    IE6 is a pain, IE7 too, actually the only cool IE I know was IE5 on macOs9 :)

    and resource...well, google helps most of the time, as probably you are not the first to encounter that css-problem on IE...

    ...if I had to design something for IE5, I would propose html1 or a flash-site!

    • IE5 on OS 9 was a nightmare!ETM1/3
      I think it was the most advanced browser on os9, netscape was the nightmare!uan2/3
      Anything to do with hunting down <font> tags was a nightmare...pylon3/3
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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:06 p.m. – Permalink
  • airey

    yep 6 blows but treat it like tom cruise. shite but here forever.

    there's a few techniques that can solve most of the IE 6 issues.

    a few starter points:

    http://24ways.org/2005/avoiding-…

    http://www.456bereastreet.com/ar…

    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/…

    http://www.andybudd.com

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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:08 p.m. – Permalink
  • 303

    I only use min-height trick for IE6, don't know is it hack or not, whatever it is called now:

    min-height: 120px; - for modern browsers, IE7 knows it
    height: auto !important; - IE6 doesn't recognise !important
    height: 120px;

    and you have min-height for IE6, and finito;

    • does height: auto even do anything?7point341/3
      that's not a min-height trick, it's a !important trick ;)rafalski2/3
      7.34 - doesn't matter, it's overridden for IE6 in the next linerafalski3/3
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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:09 p.m. – Permalink
  • 303

    height: auto !important; - that will not apply fixed height for an element; that's why it has !important directive; otherwise element will get fixed height from the line below

    • i've just never seen it used. all things are automatically height:auto; does that even validate?7point341/3
      oh ok... yeah it's just a default, that's probably why i've never seen it7point343/3
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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:12 p.m. – Permalink
  • Humanhand

    its mostly the transparent png bs I am contending with.

    • that is the biggest pain in the ass;
      there are some fixes, but then you have to struggle with unclickable hyperlinks;

      or you can prepare transparent gif but the quality will be bad
      3031/5
      struggle with unclickable hyperlinks3032/5
      I use JQuery JS framework and there's a pretty good, easy plugin that allows for png transparency
      Gordy223/5
      bingo. I will jesus were here. He would fix it.Humanhand4/5
      jQuery PNG fix isn't bad. It's sometimes a bit *slow* on test PCs I find.pylon5/5
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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:13 p.m. – Permalink
  • 7point34

    i heard a rumor once about 32-bit pngs not having that problem... did i make this up.

    are 32-bit pngs even possible... i have no idea.

    i just know photoshop only handles 8 and 24

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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:23 p.m. – Permalink
  • pylon

    I'd reckon that if IE6 can't handle a 24 bit PNG with alpha transparency then it wouldn't be able to touch a 32bit one...

    • yeah i guess not... can't remember where i read that...7point34
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    Dog-earNov 20, 08, 2:26 p.m. – Permalink

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