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Web Development Finally Made Easy on IE

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Web 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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IE 6 Users! You NEED To Upgrade!

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

ie61.jpgOver the past week I’ve been trying to piece together this new blog and website. It doesn’t use anything to fancy coding wise, so I figured it would look ok on Internet Explorer 6 until I could take the time and fix the minor tweaks which there always is. However, I found out yesterday that was not the case. A friend of mine, messaged me telling me to check out the new site on IE6. When I did, I just about burst into tears, well not actually, but I was pretty choked. Now, I don’t want to turn this into a bashing Microsoft thread, but honestly! You would think that the largest software company in the world could design a half decent web browser that met basic web standards. It’s absolutely ridiculous that web developers have to basically code two separate CSS files just so things are displayed on Microsoft’s horrible IE6 browser.

That being said, I also find it unbelievable that when IE7 was release, people who are not running XP or Vista could not install it! The least Microsoft could do is offer an update for IE6 to bring it to the current web standards so users that are not on their latest operating systems can still have a half decent browsing experience. This is just another way Microsoft forces people into buying their bloated, messy software.

So Internet Explorer users PLEASE upgrade to IE7 if you can, or even better try out Mozilla’s Firefox!

Once again, sorry if you IE 6 viewers were visiting our site over the past few days, it should be all back together now and viewable properly.
Please let me know if u find any other little things that aren’t looking or working right.

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