This article explains the CSS bugs that make IE6 a pain in the butt, and gives solutions to get around them- very helpful!
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IE6 is pain in a/ss, not only because it always have it’s own way of www code interpretation, which cause many problems with styling your website, but also IE is totally unsafe and slow.
Now you’re talking my language. Thanks for this! When is IE going to catch up?
-Jeff
I had real trouble getting my links to hover using CSS for this http://www.repossession-stoppers.com every now and again the hovers seem to get stuck, and no other links will hover. So annoying, I spent ages on this thinking I had done something wrong…..
There is one really easy way to get consistent browser interpretation.
Design your sites in Tables.
IE6 will only allow hovers to work with anchor tags, but you should be able to minipulate the style of your anchor tags with CSS.
Infact i have the same problem today!
IE6 is a complete pain, but it’s still the second most popular browser in use, with Firefox first and IE7 third. Roll on the day it has gone the same way as IE4. I think the release of IE8 will only help to speed up this process.
Wow, what a bunch of crazy bugs!
I am always hoping more people use firefox, and this is exactly the reasons why!
Yes, IE6 is a real pain. I use the IE7 librairy from Dean Edwards that helps to make IE6 behave like… IE8 has two different modes, and won’t be that easy neither !
Of course , to be true I face many times problem with internet explorer. Even firefox is not good with all features but it gives protectiion from virus, spam, phishing sites, pop up so securtiy wise firefox is better but in terms of site navigation it is totally hard to operate whereas IE is very convenient here.
Yes it is true im using firefox also. Ive uploaded on my website some tricks and tips for windows xp bugs. you can check it out :d
CSS by its very nature is a pain to get right on every browser. The browser companies need to agree on a standard and stick to it, instead of microsoft going off on their own little merry way (or not so merry as the case usually is) and expecting everybody else to adjust to their standards. Its ridiculous, can you imagine if Sony decided that they were going to adopt slight differences in the way they were going to display the pictures on their tv’s and demanded that everybody stray from the set standard in order to display hero’s correctly. There would be uproar.
I had bad times when i try to design my site. Especially on css side. I think explorer 7.0 is much better.
Well that’s list I hope I don’t have to look into to often because I know it will be at a time of frustration. ‘IE! slowly I turn, inch by inch, step by step..”
One of my repeat nemesis has been the guillotine bug -
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/guillotine.html
Yeah IE really does suck I still often find IE7 a problem.
I have been using a macbook for the last year and hence use Safari as my web browser. I often find designs turn out great in Safari then later find out IE makes a big mess…
IE6 is a pleasure compared to IE5.5. I work at a major university and thankfully we’re targeting IE6.0 and above. I’ve been reading about all the IE8 “Standards mode” issues and I can’t say I’m happy. Marie-Aude (post above) is referring to this:http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx
On designing for older browsers: am I the only one that designs the page first in FireFox and then tests it on IE6 (and 7), swears a lot, tries a few tweaks to the code that might placate those browsers, then swears some more and starts searching the web to figure out which bugs I need to work around? Perhaps I’m a hack. That link should help.
Yes IE is a pain but it would be completely wrong to design in tables as an above poster suggested… more code, harder to maintain, breaks W3C guidlines etc…
The ones that get me are the box model, double margin and no rollover states, but I just do rollovers with jquery now.
Double margin is the most frustrating I think.
IE is stilla pain but it’s been getting better over time. I personally use Firefox so it’s always a moment of holding my breath every time I check one of my designs in IE. Fortunately, I learned never to check a site’s design with a client using IE before I’ve checked itmyself first
It’s surprising how many users still use IE6 though – for my site in the past few weeks of the visitors that Ive had 1441 were using IE browsers and 408 of those were using IE6 – come on it’s 6-7 years old, update and make all our design life’s easier!
I don’t think there’s one perfect browser, firefox is close but even that has little issues that need sorting out. Firefox is by quite a margin my favorite tho …
Regards
go go mozilla..
go open source
from the beginning I know how to connect internet..
i use mozilla