Web Developing Under IE6

...is a Right Royal Pain In The Arse.

The pain started when I needed to be in Windows and thought I'd check how my web site looked in IE6. Bad, is the answer. Firstly, IE6 doesn't know what a "thin" border looks like and renders it several pixels thick. That isn't too bad, but then IE6 also decides to ignore the margin-right: statement and lets the content spread across the entire page, over the side bar. Finally I made the mistake of using a PNG with an alpha channel, which of course IE renders with solid 50% grey background. There is a work-around for this bug, but its incredibly ugly. Developing for Internet Explorer causes the red mist to appear...

Thomas Vander Stichele: web shopping in .es sounds painful. I was surprised by this as in .uk we have many online stores, and its pretty rare to find a site which does not work correctly. The normal problem is JavaScript assuming IE and some parts of the site not working correctly. Much of our Christmas shopping was done at Amazon.co.uk, which was delivered quickly as usual, even if in amazingly over-sized boxes (a trait Dabs appears to have pioneered with 2' × 1' × 0.5' boxes for a stick of SDRAM)

12:32 Wednesday, 24 Dec 2003 [#] [computers] (2 comments)

Posted by Kevin Breit at Wed Dec 24 15:25:29 2003:
Ross, what is the code you're using for the thin border in IE 6.  I haven't had any problems with thin borders in that browser.
Posted by Ed Mack at Thu Dec 25 00:18:26 2003:
The IE png bug bites hard, I wish MS would just move and get it sorted.. one of my little pages, www.the-willowtree.co.uk looked brilliant in Firebird, and then when I saw it in IE I was bloody sickened at what it did to my poor html. And, the Png bug hits all versions it seems. Also regarding Amazon, I've had a great time with them, but this christmas only half my order's been dispatched.. my tree is bare!

Here wait, it's this wonderful pagen festival again, yay!

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