IE 6 Hacks 1212 Responses

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• Humanhand

  Anybody have a good collection or resource for IE6 and lower hacks. I am bout ready to kill.

  Nov 20, 08, 1:55 p.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  there is no point in designing for anything before IE 6

  

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  Dog-earNov 20, 08, 1:56 p.m. – Permalink

• 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 FFS– 7point343/8

    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 dept– 7point345/8

    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…

  • +1– pylon1/3

    Damn, seconds out
    – Gordy222/3

    +734– 7point343/3

  

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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

  • thanks for these.– Humanhand

  

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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 line– rafalski3/3

  

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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

    http://www.w3schools…– 3032/3

    oh ok... yeah it's just a default, that's probably why i've never seen it– 7point343/3

  

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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 hyperlinks– 3032/5

    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