IE problems.

Hi all,

Please take a look at http://www.ianhobson.co.uk/test.htm

It validates and works in Firefox exactly as required...

.... but IE6 makes a complete mess of it.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I can make IE play? I'm already
torn out at least least half of my remaining hair with this. Nothing I
have tried has convinced IE to do anything better.

Many thanks

Ian

I don't think you need to bother about IE6 any more, it is an old and
very broken piece of software - it should no longer be used. Try IE7,
or if you can, IE8beta.

Alexander.


Ian Hobson wrote:

Hi all,

Please take a look at http://www.ianhobson.co.uk/test.htm

It validates and works in Firefox exactly as required...

... but IE6 makes a complete mess of it.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I can make IE play? I'm already
torn out at least least half of my remaining hair with this. Nothing I
have tried has convinced IE to do anything better.

Many thanks

Ian

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Alexander Huber wrote:

I don't think you need to bother about IE6 any more, it is an old
and very broken piece of software - it should no longer be used.

I don't think you need to bother about Windows any more, it is an old
and very broken piece of software - it should no longer be used.

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I don't think you need to bother about IE6 any more,

I think most professionals would strongly disagree. IE6 still
(unfortunately) commands a very sizable portion of general browsing
traffic.

it is an old and very broken piece of software

True enough.

it should no longer be used.

In an ideal world.

Try IE7, or if you can, IE8beta.

Or, even better, leave IE by the wayside and use a real browser.

Ian Hobson wrote:

Hi all,

Please take a look at http://www.ianhobson.co.uk/test.htm

It validates and works in Firefox exactly as required...

Thanks to everyone for their rsponces. Some comments.

I need frames partly because the whole app is in frames (circa 2002?)
and a complete rewrite is not feasable, and partly because we want to
disable bookmarking.

Most customers have IE6, so that has to be got to work.

I can't run IE7 or 8beta (win2k still), so testing on those will have to
wait.

However....I've cracked the problem using javascript. (and updated the
files).

Regards

Ian

I think most professionals would strongly disagree. IE6 still
(unfortunately) commands a very sizable portion of general browsing
traffic.

Professionals? Or people who don't know how to install a proper browser?

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Ian Hobson wrote:

http://www.ianhobson.co.uk/test.htm

... but IE6 makes a complete mess of it.

If you are referring to the one-row height in IE6, it is because that is
what you are telling it to do.

textarea rows="1" cols="1"></textarea

Only partially, I think.

The reason is more the positioning rules. IE6 doesn't grok setting all 4
positions top, bottom, left and right. It seems to have managed left and
right together, overriding the cols value, but not top and bottom so it
remains 1 row.

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On Apr 24, 12:33 pm, Alexander Huber <alhu... (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote:

I think most professionals would strongly disagree. IE6 still
(unfortunately) commands a very sizable portion of general browsing
traffic.

Professionals? Or people who don't know how to install a proper browser?

By all means, allow me to clarify. Most professional Web designers and
developers would strongly disagree that you can abandon consideration
for IE6, for the simple reason that so many people "don't know how to
install a proper browser". ;-)

In article <4810b4b5$0$12923$4c368faf (AT) roadrunner (DOT) com>,
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Ian Hobson wrote:

I need frames partly because the whole app is in frames (circa 2002?)
and a complete rewrite is not feasable,

Ah. You didn't include that in your details.

And, of course, nor need he have, given his original question.

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In article
<9cade88d-6331-4559-bc7b-29378994addf (AT) 1g2000prg (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
Kevin Scholl <kscholl (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote:

On Apr 24, 12:33 pm, Alexander Huber <alhu... (AT) gmx (DOT) net> wrote:
I think most professionals would strongly disagree. IE6 still
(unfortunately) commands a very sizable portion of general browsing
traffic.

Professionals? Or people who don't know how to install a proper browser?

By all means, allow me to clarify. Most professional Web designers and
developers would strongly disagree that you can abandon consideration
for IE6, for the simple reason that so many people "don't know how to
install a proper browser". ;-)

There is a misunderstanding from the start. Alexander is thinking about
the OP and the OP (and everyone else except Alexander) is thinking about
the OP's customers. Once you make this distinction, the problem
disappears like when an apple is touched by a magic wand replaced by a
cloud of silver hollywood stars.

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dorayme