My site roofcommunityservices.org I am being told has some div shifting issues in IE6. We do not have IE6 here at the office, but I do use the Firefox render tool to view a screenshot si I get the general idea. I am on a Mac and can't see the same issues as my client.
Could someone take a look at the site in IE6 PC and tell me what they are seeing, particularly on the donation page?
Thanks much.
Take a look here: http://www.stalebrew.com/2008/browsers/stand-alone-internet-explorer-6/ You can download a stand-alone version of Internet Explorer 6 for doing such testing.
Another option is to use http://browsershots.org to see screenshots of your website with various OS and browser options.
You can see all kinds of browser setups by using browsershots.org
There is some shifting on the donations page.
Also, transparent .png files are not supported in IE6.
Everything was fine except for the banner you had at the top. When I checked in ff, all the sub-links were available. When I checked in IE6, none of them were shown.
I haven't tested it in IE6, I don't have that either. But Generally the first thing I do when trying to see why something isn't working is run it through a validator. Sadly, your page really doesn't work well on a validator, and it runs lots of complaints.
Stating "XHTML Strict" and then using non-strict html really isn't a very sensible idea.
If you are lucky, fixing your 226 validation errors might help IE6.
People who disagree with me, try changing the closing tag of "title" to "titel" , and see the miracle occur where IE renders a completely white page but firefox doesn't mind.
As for getting Flash elements to validate, see here:
http://latrine.dgx.cz/how-to-correctly-insert-a-flash-into-xhtml http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay
This has also been useful in the past, but its a bit dated now:
FORGET ABOUT IE6
we're already on IE8, people. it's like supporting IE4 when IE6 came out...
It might be prudent to have a virtual machine running XP with IE6 for testing your layouts. And, as other have mentioned, running your website through a validator (w3) and solving those validation errors can give you a good starting point with pinpointing some random display issues. Particularly if you have a lot of non-closed tags.
In addition to the solutions already mentioned, there's a javascript library called IE7 (nowdays also IE8), that claims to solve IE6 ja IE7 related CSS/PNG-problems. In my experience, it does solve some, but not all of them. It's very easy to use, you just need to include the javascript file. http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/
Here's some basic info about running windows on Intel Macs. http://www.macwindows.com/winintelmac.html
Microsoft provides images of XP SP2 with IE6 and IE7 for free (for testing purposes). See http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/11/30/ie6-and-ie7-running-on-a-single-machine.aspx
There's a handy program called IEtester (only for windows i'm afraid, but remember the virtualisation/bootcamp) that helps you see your pages in IE5.5, 6, 7 and 8. http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage