ie6 :(
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- Stugoo
oh man,
I recently built a site thats using sifr, jquery, carousels, baseline grid, mad line heights, video embedding, modal boxes, ajax, transparent pngs and mad positioning overlays for a cutting edge magazine only to find that they are using ie6 as their default browser.at least its sunny outside... oh wait I'm inside nooooooooo!
- fiesta0
Tell them to enjoy their botnets!
- Shaney0
feel your pain man....... the worse bastard of a browser ever made
- lukus_W0
... if I was employing someone to design a site for me, I'd tell them I'm using IE6; even though it would be a blatant lie. Lowest common denominator and all that...
Sounds like a shite situation - the thing I hate about this kind of thing most is explaining to the client how IE6 is the problem (and then having the realisation that they think I'm making excusing for shit work).
- falcons_allies0
I just spent a day doing IE fixes. Pain in the arse but some of our clients have no choice but to use it.
- shitehawke0
Tell them that as a cutting edge magazine their website reflects this, hence it looks different on their computers.
- yepShaney
- possibly stick a 'beta' somewhere to reinforce this.shitehawke
- yep againShaney
- imnotaplumber0
You could have asked first?
- Stugoo0
Nothing that a beer garden lunch hasn't sorted out.
Well to be honest I was just handed the psds and told to build, we somehow managed to get the contract to build the site from a print designer with out an idea of how the site will work.
I've already relayed my views and what will happen to my PM. And (like you said above) about how they are a cutting edge magazine that their website is cutting edge but their browser is ... er blunt?
I've griped and flamed about ie6 so much I'm well past hating it. I'm now making active efforts to take it out the game! I've blogged about it and am in the process of briefing our consultants and PMs on how to handle clients who 'require' ie6....
putting together a presentation on how best to approach upgrading from ie6.
- great! fire it over when your done!!
;PDancer - shallStugoo
- http://www.headshift…Stugoo
- great! fire it over when your done!!
- jamble0
There are lots of ways to move on from IE6, plenty of conditional scripts that will give you a simple upgrade notice etc but unfortunately in most cases, the people who use IE6 simply don't know any better when it comes to browser alternatives and a lot of clients don't want to force the issue.
There are glimmers of hope though .. http://www.cjohansen.no/en/brows…
- ie6 in an office environment often has restrictions on updating as an "employee"version3
- bulletfactory0
I don't even have enough middle fingers for ie6.
- vaxorcist0
Make sure they know that some things cannot be done, or cannot be done elegantly in IE6, so at some point they have to choose feature or browser....
- jamble0
I've updated my contract to support standards compliant browsers and anything "extra" such as making a site look exactly the same in IE6 incurs additional cost.
- seopher0
You'll probably find it's worthwhile defining what browsers you support "before" starting work on it. Therefore you know how crazy you can go with the latest technologies. Not that I'd call PNG's the "latest" thing of course..
- BattleAxe0
- I wasn't keen on the "hugs for monsters" approach, it was a tad hard-line.seopher
- utrns out, he wasn't keen on them either: http://blog.hugsform…refunktion
- *turnsrefunktion
- flashbender0
I just found this little gem:
http://www.positioniseverything.…it rears its ugly little head even when you apply a class to a text box.
fuckers
- Stugoo0
nice little plugin btw
http://www.caktux.ca/blog/suy-jq…
- CygnusZero40
I never had a problem developing for IE6.
- canuck0
Tell them it's not 2001 anymore.
- Mojo0
Stugoo, look up Dean Edwards IE7.js script. Amazing.