Monday, February 22, 2010

IE6, the bane of Web Developers

Throughout the years, Internet Explorer 6 has been the bane of web developers worldwide. With the growing popularity of CSS around this time, there were many flaws in the CSS engine of IE6. Most have been fixed since then, but IE6 is still a very popular web browser, albeit not as popular as it used to be. When browsing certain websites, the way the CSS was adapted to the sites was different and full of holes when using IE6. This made web developers furious, and they had to come up with many different ways to work around the flaws so that the site could be useable in IE6. Thankfully, there is a way to code so that only specific lines of the CSS Code are read by Internet Explorer, making developers lives a little easier. In coming posts I will  describe some CSS bugs and how to fix them, and possibly, why they happen.

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