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IE6 Disaster


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I am getting so tired of ie6 >___>

I have 3 problems with this site.

1. I have a fixed div to the bottom of the screen and IE6 apparently doesn't support it. I can probably find a fix for it somewhere so that won't be an issue.

2. I'm getting a script error, the site uses fancybox and jquery cycle for a lot of things and they don't work because of the error but i don't know what the error is.

3. The 3 columns are having padding issues. The right column is ignoring the right-padding for the center column, so it is pushing the center column down and is invading in it's padding space.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. (: thanks.

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anyways on topic, afaik the last versions of jquery aren't guaranteed to be working with ie6 anymore. Fixed has never been supported by ie6, ie6 box model is a disaster but there are specific fixes for that.

To be honest, unless you are in a company that requires it, there shouldn't be a reason anymore to still try to cater for ie6 users. Even microsoft doesn't do that anymore:)

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Alot of computers in the district still have ie6, my web mastering teacher told me that it should support ie6. and I'm having more problems than I listed which made it a disaster. I deleted them and just kept the main problems.

anyways on topic, afaik the last versions of jquery aren't guaranteed to be working with ie6 anymore. Fixed has never been supported by ie6, ie6 box model is a disaster but there are specific fixes for that.

I may just tell my teacher that she needs to tell the district it's not that hard to upgrade then.

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ok,

1) the fixed can only be solved with javascript, I would however recommend just making a normal footer out of it

2) try an older version of jquery, if that still fails, try using a non minimized version, that might give a more verbose error than what you are getting now

3) have you set all padding, margins and borders to 0 for all elements in your stylesheet?

ie6 is almost 10 years old, your teacher should be one of the first to realize it should be forgotten asap.

btw, as a site owner, never try to choose sides in the browser debate. Just say, try upgrading to a newer browser instead of recommending one :)

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Can't see the website so can't comment too much, but:

- Position: Fixed can be replaced with position:absolute and position:relative depending on where you want the element to be placed.

- Double padding is v.easy corrected and most likely down to your CSS and Mark-up, again I can't see the page but if your elements are floated try adding 'display:inline' to your containers.

jQuery works for me using IE6 (v1.4.2) so I would assume something else is causing the problem.

Yes IE6 is a pain but it is easily worked with.

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are you doing this for a course? or are you making something that's actually going to be displayed on the district network?

Our Web Mastering 2 class manages the website, and we're working on the new one for next year.

jesus christ, use firefox atleast.

the problem is that the teachers have firefox but the most important web app they use, chancery, only works in ie. so they stick with ie for everything, and some haven't been updated to ie8.

- Double padding is v.easy corrected and most likely down to your CSS and Mark-up, again I can't see the page but if your elements are floated try adding 'display:inline' to your containers.

Apparently something in the column was too big and i fixed it for IE by using !important in the css. I also fixed the URL.

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... ie6 box model is a disaster but there are specific fixes for that ...

The Internet Explorer box model bug is a software bug in the implementation of Cascading Style Sheets in earlier versions of Microsoft?s Internet Explorer web browser for Microsoft Windows. Internet Explorer 6 and newer are not affected in their standards-compliant mode, but for compatibility reasons, the bug is still present when a page is rendered in "quirks mode".

Just don't invoke quirks mode, problem solved.

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Nearly no one uses IE6 nowadays, so I don't think that You should bother anyway. For past 5 years everyone cried for war with IE6 users, this year even Microsoft attended the funeral of IE6. If someone wasn't living lately under the rock Windows Update surely updated IE.

I am hosting a forum with over 1000 users (for me its a nice start point for making stats, maybe Neowin should make their stats public?) and the stats shows that only few use IE7 and up.

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Why even have/support IE 6 anyone. Microsoft even held a funeral for it.

No they didn't. They are also still supporting it, despite claims to the contrary.

A third party held the funeral. Microsoft merely sent flowers and a note.

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I don't know why Microsoft still cares about IE, maybe because its strongly integrated in OS, but still they should remove it in next OS's. IE was Microsoft's biggest fail, it brought them to court, they lost the case and it was the biggest hit aimed at Gate's company, it stopped their rapid development and growing market shares. Not mentioning dividing Microsoft in two.

They should end with IE and start sth new. I like their ideas - I'm sure they would create sth awesome.

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