Tag Archives: IE6

Make IE works well

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As you all know, IE has the bugs that driving a lot of web designers crazy, we all went “Oh fuck!” when a client replied with IE viewing problem, especially IE6.

Of course, there is also lots of hack can be applied on IE to make it work well. However, applying those hack may sometimes, time consuming. How can you work on the speed while not to worry about IE bugs?

Using padding instead of margin

Padding
IE double margin, the biggest problem web designers are facing. Change it, use padding instead.

Unless you’re applying CSS3, else, count it out, it’s won’t be that difficult if you’re using grid system :)

Padding bug? Then position the structure

Positioning
I haven’t encounter any padding bug yet. But if they do, well, positioning work well on IE too ;)

Most used position: relative and position: absolute aren’t that dizzy after all.

The badass Javascript

The problem I don’t like about Mozilla Firefox is that sometimes it works pretty damn well even Javascript is not valid.

Check through your Javascript sometimes. It may cause problem too.

Nowadays, after a few frameworks and some idea about IE bugs, I am pretty much worry free on IE. That speed up my work progress on developing the front-end :)

Late night debugging

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I can’t help to scream tonight. It has been 2 days I tried to debug a site on IE6. Who the hell still using IE6, seriously, let’s not say it kill a web designer, it is SLOW! (I installed an IE6 for testing purpose too). Just like Webdesigner Depot reported, it happen to me as well. Now I have to fix both :?
No IE6
Though there are plenty of site supporting to change or upgrade IE6. But after a second thought, we are paid to work on those :(

However, my mind also start twisting when having a short rest. We all can’t blame on IE6 alone, as far as I remember, table works very well with all browsers, it was the XHTML/CSS that screwed up with the web designer. I did a serious thinking about turning the site into table-based before, since some people don’t really care about the standard, but more on viewing it in browser they like, not the web designers like, you see.

Later few days I will attend some event, I guess even the best eye wrinkle cream won’t help me now. Seriously, sometimes luck like to play trick with people. Erm… Should start thinking positive better, Law of Attraction, or God won’t give something I can’t handle? Whichever works better and faster… So freaking sleepy now….