I'm running into a perplexing problem with an ActiveX control I'm writing - sometimes, Internet Explorer appears to fail to properly unload the control on process shutdown. This results in the control instance's destructor not being called. The control is written in C++, uses ATL and it's compiled using Visual Studio 2005. The control i...
I have a multi-frame layout. One of the frames contains a form, which I am submitting through XMLHttpRequest. Now when I use document.write() to rewrite the frame with the form, and the new page I am adding contains any javascript then the javascript is not exectuted in IE6? For example: document.write("<html><head><script>alert(1);</s...
When viewing someone else's webpage containing an applet, how can I force Internet Explorer 6.0 to use a a particular JRE when I have several installed? ...
Generally, what's the best way to tackle a layout bug in IE6? What are the most common bugs or problems that one should look for when trying to figure out why your page suddenly looks like a monkey coded it? ...
All front-end developers know the pain of coding for Firefox, then viewing our then mangled pages in IE6. IE6 is still widely used (it is, however disappearing slowly but surely... in a year and a half from the writing of this, it will be irrelevant as usage will be less than 1%) We usually used IE conditional comments to create separat...
I've seen a few fixes for allowing PNG images to have transparency in Internet Explorer 6, but I've yet to find one that also allows you to set the background position in CSS. If you use sprites, it's a deal-breaker. I've resorted to using GIF's (which are not as high quality), not using transparent images at all, or serving a completely...
What is the definitive way to mimic the CSS property min-width in Internet Explorer 6? Is it better not to try? ...
We have a CMS system whose web interface gets served over HTTPS. This works beautifully for Firefox, but when we load it in IE6 or IE7, it complains that "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items." I've loaded the page in Firefox and checked with Firebug, and every connection seems to be going through HTTPS, as should be the c...
Will IE6 negotiate a 256 bit AES SSL connection if the server is capable? ...
I've encountered a problem when retrieving a JSONP response from a server in a different domain using IE6. When I make the same AJAX call using JSONP to a server in the same domain as the web page, all goes well in all browsers (including IE6). However, when I make calls between domains (XSS) using JSONP, Internet Explorer 6 locks up. ...
I've gotten used to the idea that if I want/need to use alpha-trans PNGs in a cross-browser manner, that I use a background image on a div and then, in IE6-only CSS, mark the background as "none" and include the proper "filter" argument. Is there another way? A better way? Is there a way to do this with the img tag and not with backgrou...
Does anyone know if IE6 ever misrenders pages with hidden divs? We currently have several divs which we display in the same space on the page, only showing one at a time and hiding all others. The problem is that the hidden divs' components (specifically option menus) sometimes show through. If the page is scrolled, removing the compone...
Is there a way to have Internet Explorer 8 and IE 6 side by side without virtualizing? I used Multiple IEs which works fine with IE 7, but since I installed IE 8 beta 2, IE 6 started behaving oddly (that is, more than usual) ...
Our web site (running Rails) freezes IE6 nearly every time. The same code, deployed on a different server, does not freeze IE6. Where and how should we start tracking this down? ...
I know this would be easy with position:fixed, but unfortanately I'm stuck with supporting IE 6. How can I do this? I would rather use CSS to be clean, but if I have to use Javascript, that's not the end of the world. In my current implementation I have a "floating footer" that floats above the main content area and is positioned with...
Hi, I have a really strange problem with an quite simple ASP.NET (.NET 3.5) Site and the IE6. It seems sometimes and on certain machines, the IE6 crashes while displaying the site. CSS was already eliminated as a reason for the crashes. After a while of research, I was not able to find a reason for the crashes and could not reproduce ...
I have two vista Business machines. I have IE 7 installed on both. On my first machine (Computer1) if I go to this site (http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html), it says I am using "Explorer 6 on Windows". If I use Computer2 with Vista Business and IE7, it says I am using "Explorer 7 on Windows". Here is a screen capture. The same...
I am having issues with a website that I am working on in which images and background-images fail to load in Internet Explorer 6. Here is an example of a page on which you might experience this issue: Example Page So far I have looked at the following possible issues and pretty much ruled them out: XML/Extraneous data in the image f...
I have a web page which contains a select box. When I open a jQuery Dialog it is displayed partly behind the select box. How should I approach this problem? Should I hide the select box or does jQuery offer some kind of 'shim' solution. (I have Googled but didn't find anything) Here is some code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <hea...
I'm trying add a tab to my web page that looks like this: Using this example as a basis, I've gotten it partially working. My case differs because I want the text section to be a fixed with, but the tail section to dynamically resize to take up the rest of the tab's container. It looks good in IE 6, but doesn't really take up the ful...