Comments on: Definitive Guide to Taming the IE6 Beast

By: Lavinia

Lavinia — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:50:08 +0000

Exrtmeley helpful article, please write more.

By: FinnBB

FinnBB — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:26:45 +0000

Thanks for a great article. Real nice idea about the separate IE6 stylesheet. You are bookmarked! Be nice if Microsoft tried to encourage customers to upgrade their IE6 browsers by means of an ad campaign or offering incentives? If Microsoft are prepared to pay a fortune for Skype in an effort to improve their market position, surely targeting people who haven’t thought about or face challenges when upgrading their browsers would give them much needed kudos and help designers and users’ online experiences. I am going to stop writing now as sadly I am starting to feel annoyed. :(

By: Yeu Ly

Yeu Ly — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:52:40 +0000

Hi admin,
Im using IE8, is there any differences about editting CSS code? Thank alot for sharing.

Yeu

By: Youngstream

Youngstream — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:20:58 +0000

IE6 must die!!
Other than that, good job, this is a really thorough and useful article!

By: Peter Watson

Peter Watson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:28:16 +0000

Great article, I will definitely keep it book-marked.

To all the people saying kill the beast…if only it were that easy! Please remember that many users are unable to do so. I work in UK local Government, and our desktop support guys simply don’t have the resources or time to upgrade thousands of users. Sad but true. As for users on the outside, we simply don’t have control over that. You can offer them advice on why they should upgrade/change, but they are under no obligation to do so. Building sites that don’t work in IE6 are just going to piss people off, so in the meantime we are stuck with it.

To all those people saying write simpler code – what if you are working on a comlpex third-party app, where you don’t actually have access to the code but you can work on the CSS? I’m speaking from experience here, where I have been asked to style a GIS application that by its very nature is quite complicated.

By: deanoj

deanoj — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:10:18 +0000

Using the ‘overflow’ method to fix the clearing floats issue caused us no end of trouble with disppearing text in IE6. However, I find using the old style clearfix method to work fine.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:32:08 +0000

Nice writeup. I advise everyone to make very judicious use of the !important modifier. It is not a good fit for a declaration that will need to be overridden because then you’ll have to use the !important modifier again for all browsers. Using it a few times for ‘primitive’ classes leads to having to use it a lot, and you may well find your stylesheet riddled with !important modifiers.

By: doug

doug — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:18:59 +0000

“What if movie and television producers suddenly thought plasma was not good enough to display media in the quality they preferred, and made it so you couldn’t watch? Instead you get a big red screen PLEASE BUY LCD, UPGRADE! You would be fairly pissed off. So are users when they get to a site with information they need and its blocked out.”

@Kevin: Uh, didn’t they just do this to our TVs? Try watching an analog station (read: IE6). You can’t anymore. I understand this is a little apples to oranges (there is no department in my home telling me I can’t change TVs, unless you count my budget…) but the concept is the same.

By: Eddie Johnson

Eddie Johnson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:09:37 +0000

weirdly, I have just posted an article on a similar subject! (I came across this one a few days later) its not as in depth but has some alternate views/solutions to some of the problems listed here (and has a couple of other problems listed/fixed)… am I allowed a link in here?.. ahh bugger it – look here: http://www.websurfshack.net/2009/08/ie6-css-tricks-and-hacks/

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:01:32 +0000

If you want to get some insight into how long we have, go to this site http://www.ie6death.com Looks like we will be dealing with IE6 for a long time.