IE 6 Hacks
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- Humanhand
Anybody have a good collection or resource for IE6 and lower hacks. I am bout ready to kill.
- 7point340
there is no point in designing for anything before IE 6
- Humanhand0
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%7point34
- In the USA.pylon
- it's 10 years old FFS7point34
- They still drive cars from the fifties in Cuba, mate.pylon
- sorry i wasn't responding to you, just general stupidity in an IT dept7point34
- Agreed, its a fools errand.Humanhand
- 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'.pylon
- *standard* or *normal*.pylon
- 3030
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…
- Gordy220
Use conditional comments - easiest way.
- uan0
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!
- airey0
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…
- 3030
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;
- 3030
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?7point34
- http://www.w3schools…303
- oh ok... yeah it's just a default, that's probably why i've never seen it7point34
- Humanhand0
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 bad303 - struggle with unclickable hyperlinks303
- I use JQuery JS framework and there's a pretty good, easy plugin that allows for png transparency
Gordy22 - bingo. I will jesus were here. He would fix it.Humanhand
- jQuery PNG fix isn't bad. It's sometimes a bit *slow* on test PCs I find.pylon
- that is the biggest pain in the ass;
- 7point340
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