Comments on: IE6 bugs that can drive a designer crazy

By: Amaterashu

Amaterashu — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:08:05 +0000

go go mozilla..
go open source
from the beginning I know how to connect internet..
i use mozilla

By: Kevin SEO

Kevin SEO — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:57:16 +0000

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

By: Code4Gold

Code4Gold — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:11:17 +0000

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

By: Web Design Adelaide

Web Design Adelaide — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:58:45 +0000

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.

By: design nottingham

design nottingham — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:07:20 +0000

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…

By: Jon Christopher

Jon Christopher — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:40:31 +0000

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.

By: Ben Callis

Ben Callis — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:44:01 +0000

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…

By: David@VineSites

David@VineSites — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:44:22 +0000

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

By: webmaster

webmaster — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:04:24 +0000

I had bad times when i try to design my site. Especially on css side. I think explorer 7.0 is much better.

By: Manchester steve

Manchester steve — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:39:38 +0000

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.