Web Development Finally Made Easy on IE
Friday, March 28th, 2008Web development has always been difficult on Internet Explorer. In fact, a couple days ago, I was ready to write off IE6 debugging completely. I find it ridiculous that Microsoft has not complied with w3c standards up until now (Thank god they announced that IE 8 will be standards compliant) .
I’ve been searching google lately for all types of fixes for IE6, for example, I created a nice CSS drop down menu for a clients site yesterday. It worked in every single browser but IE6. I thought I would have to spend a few hours hacking up my css just to get it working, but that however was not the case.
I accidentally stumbled across a Eric Meyer’s Blog and saw that he has been working on a javascript library that fixes all the little css and rendering bugs in IE6 & 7.
All I needed to do was add the “ie8.js” file into the root of the site and then add the following code to my <HEAD> tag.
<!--[if lt IE 8]>
<script src="IE8.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<![endif]-->Immediately after adding this little bit of code, my drop downs started working in IE6, along with transparent png’s.
Read the google code site for a list of bugs this bit of javascript fixes.
I hope this helps you guys as much as it has helped me!
You can download the javascript library here.
View Demos Here
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