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Anyone currently using IE6 - mind testing this site for me?


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Hello,

Spent a while trying to adapt a drop down menu to my needs (in IE8 and FF3) and im worried along the way ive broken IE6 compatibility. So, could anyone on IE6 (or even 7) quickly have a look here and tell me what it like? Does the drop down work?

On the one in a million chance it works fine its time to put my feet up - otherwise i think its time to fire up a new virtual machine!

Cheers

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Hello,

Spent a while trying to adapt a drop down menu to my needs (in IE8 and FF3) and im worried along the way ive broken IE6 compatibility. So, could anyone on IE6 (or even 7) quickly have a look here and tell me what it like? Does the drop down work?

On the one in a million chance it works fine its time to put my feet up - otherwise i think its time to fire up a new virtual machine!

Cheers

You shouldnt code your site for IE6 at all.

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Link in the OP ("have a look here). Ill make it a bit more obvious... one sec.

Cheers for the link - that was going to be my next step, just didnt fancy the download on my 1mb broadband :(

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@asumc - i disagree. The website will be used for an industrial supplier whose clients are large corporations, the type who stick to XP/IE6. Im not going to alienate my potential clients. I will at least make sure it is usable at the very minimum.

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@asumc - i disagree. The website will be used for an industrial supplier whose clients are large corporations, the type who stick to XP/IE6. Im not going to alienate my potential clients. I will at least make sure it is usable at the very minimum.

You, them and the rest that still code for IE6 are the bottleneck of the industry.

Google, the worlds largest search site, is also used by those large corporations and Google does not support IE6. IE6 has to die. By you continuing to code for it, you are simply delaying the industry.

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That's a bit harsh! Whilst I agree that IE6 can be a pain, if it doesn't take too much effort to make a few changes so your site looks right or is at least usable in IE6 why not spend a little time sorting it out? It's usually only a case of having a separate CSS for IE6.

Google works fine for me on IE6 btw.

Looks fine to me:

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You, them and the rest that still code for IE6 are the bottleneck of the industry.

Google, the worlds largest search site, is also used by those large corporations and Google does not support IE6. IE6 has to die. By you continuing to code for it, you are simply delaying the industry.

You're wrong.

Sometimes you have to support IE6, depends on the client's userbase, you can't dictate what browser people should be using.

On new builds I tend to let IE6 fall-back gracefully, removing PNG shadows using the !important trick etc. It isn't exactly hard, unless you're lazy.

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Thanks for the replies - especially +Plarkster ill give IEtester a go!

@SmokeDragoon - Thats right. Thanks

@asusmc - Surely it takes a brave (or stupid) man to ignore the needs of my customers. Google may not support IE6, but it doesnt block it. Its not going to ignore all those users.

@+Plarkster - Thanks for the screenshot - the menu kinda works! May take a second to see if i can polish it up, but atleast it opens. Thanks for the input

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@+Plarkster - ive been playing around with IETester for the last few hours and its really great. Thanks a lot.

I was just wondering, it doesnt seem to like IE7 - so if anyone with IE7 (or 6) for that matter could have a new look at my menu, that would be great.

Cheers.

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I'll never understand why this specific browser doesn't die like all the others do when new versions come out. When IE6 came out, IE5 didn't last much longer. When any new version of Firefox comes out, a vast majority of people upgrade to it. Chrome automatically updates you, even.

IE6 is the single most outdated browser that refuses to die, and it's the WORST one in existence for the time period it came from. If you used Firefox or even Opera from IE6's time period, they'd still be better for viewing the web (and also much more secure) than IE6.

So my question is, why do people rely so much not only the WORST browser... but such a very old one at that? Even Windows XP users can upgrade to IE8! It wouldn't cost em any money, as upgrading a browser is always free!

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I'll never understand why this specific browser doesn't die like all the others do when new versions come out. When IE6 came out, IE5 didn't last much longer. When any new version of Firefox comes out, a vast majority of people upgrade to it. Chrome automatically updates you, even.

IE6 is the single most outdated browser that refuses to die, and it's the WORST one in existence for the time period it came from. If you used Firefox or even Opera from IE6's time period, they'd still be better for viewing the web (and also much more secure) than IE6.

So my question is, why do people rely so much not only the WORST browser... but such a very old one at that? Even Windows XP users can upgrade to IE8! It wouldn't cost em any money, as upgrading a browser is always free!

Think about going around manually upgrading every computer in a huge corporation. And companies web based databases may not work above IE6.

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I'll never understand why this specific browser doesn't die like all the others do when new versions come out. When IE6 came out, IE5 didn't last much longer. When any new version of Firefox comes out, a vast majority of people upgrade to it. Chrome automatically updates you, even.

IE6 is the single most outdated browser that refuses to die, and it's the WORST one in existence for the time period it came from. If you used Firefox or even Opera from IE6's time period, they'd still be better for viewing the web (and also much more secure) than IE6.

So my question is, why do people rely so much not only the WORST browser... but such a very old one at that? Even Windows XP users can upgrade to IE8! It wouldn't cost em any money, as upgrading a browser is always free!

You're to stubborn to be in discussions like this, last time.

"Applications depend on ie6 or lower to function correctly, upgrading existing software that functions perfectly well costs money" end of discussion if you can't understand that simple concept then don't bother posting in threads like this

IETester is ok but don't completely rely on its results as its not 100% accurate best to use a VM with ie6 or even find an old XP machine that hasn't updated its browser

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"Applications depend on ie6 or lower to function correctly, upgrading existing software that functions perfectly well costs money" end of discussion if you can't understand that simple concept then don't bother posting in threads like this

IETester is ok but don't completely rely on its results as its not 100% accurate best to use a VM with ie6 or even find an old XP machine that hasn't updated its browser

Agreed. We still have some older web apps at work that had IE specific coding (ActiveX) and styles. Upgrading the browser isn't just a matter of updating the clients, which is expensive enough, but there's also web app updates and lots of testing involved.

And as for IETester, I agree there as well. I used it about a year ago and it does't always show the correct layout like IE6 will. If you can spare the disk space, separate VMs with IE6 and IE7 installed are the best way to test pages for backwards compatibility.

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while i do partially agree on the IE6 issue you cannot truly stop support for a business that has a large userbase that use IE6 only, it would be nice to get rid of IE6 but there are still some users/businesses that require it and it should be about choice right? ie may not be a good choice but that is up to the user to decide what to use and deal with the consiquences of it.

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Let us hope that you've taken in consideration the users of CLI

I'll never understand why this specific browser doesn't die like all the others do when new versions come out.

Because @Colin-uk doesn't want it to die.

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I'll never understand why this specific browser doesn't die like all the others do when new versions come out. When IE6 came out, IE5 didn't last much longer. When any new version of Firefox comes out, a vast majority of people upgrade to it. Chrome automatically updates you, even.

IE6 is the single most outdated browser that refuses to die, and it's the WORST one in existence for the time period it came from. If you used Firefox or even Opera from IE6's time period, they'd still be better for viewing the web (and also much more secure) than IE6.

So my question is, why do people rely so much not only the WORST browser... but such a very old one at that? Even Windows XP users can upgrade to IE8! It wouldn't cost em any money, as upgrading a browser is always free!

Because its a good browser :p

and IE7/8 are too different.

also, lol @ tiago, i knew someone would mention me :)

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