Web Directions

How do you solve a problem like IE6?

• By:John
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• May 22, 2009
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(As astute, more likely female readers might guess, Sound of Music is now the new favourite movie at chez Allsopp for the 3 year old)

We might forget it, but once IE6 represented a great leap forward for the web. At the time, its support for CSS was really as good as it got. Then, sadly, nothing happened with IE, and the web in the shape of Opera, Safari and Firefox (the last two not even released when IE6 was) moved on.

IE6 became an albatross around our necks.

Since then, a myriad proposed solutions, from Dean Edward’s extraordinary IE7 Script, to the best forgotten Browse Happy campaign have come along to help us try and deal with this aging, but still significant browser (even CSS3 gets in on the act with the box-​​sizing property, supported in IE8!)

Now, one of Web Directions favourite presenters, Andy Clarke, has proposed simply serving all sites the same style for IE6.

Read Andy’s suggestion for Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS in detail — a very interesting proposal.

2 responses to “How do you solve a problem like IE6?”:

1. • By:viktor
   • May 23rd, 2009
   

   it’s year 2009.. websites were treated for IE6 in 2002–2007..

2. • By:Damien Buckley
   • May 27th, 2009
   

   Fabulous idea and for blogs etc its great but for commercial sites I can imagine the clients’ response to this.

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