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When to stop caring about a browser

The question is simple really, when is it time to finally pull the plug on a browser version and just not care about supporting it any more? As can probably be expected this is in regards to IE6 specifically right now. A site I'm working on right now has a mostly-finished design that needs to be integrated but most of the back-end functi...

IE 6 select controls(Combo Box) over menu

In IE 6 select control(combo box) is displaying on top of menus. I checked some javscript menus , mmmenu,http://www.leigeber.com/2008/11/drop-down-menu/, all are getting under select control. Its not fixable by assigning Z-Index. Is there any other solution. ...

Javascript Memory profiling - IE6

We have an application that behaves really badly in IE6, the application relies heavily on javascript and most of the activity happens in one page. In IE6, it seems that memory keeps piling up and never gets cleared even when you navigate to a different site! Since there's not so little code running within the browser, I'm looking for ...

JQuery "parsererror" when trying to use Ajax in IE 6

When using jQuery Ajax, I am receiving a parseerror in IE 6, Firefox works just fine. My code is like this: $.ajax({ url: 'test.xml', type: 'GET', dataType: 'xml', error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) { alert('Error: ' + textStatus + ", " + errorThrown); }, success: function(xml){ ...

two column CSS layout problem -- in IE6, table in content area is being pushed down by left nav

I have an extremely simple page that isn't displaying properly in IE6. In this browser, the left nav pushes down a table that's in the content area. Can anyone help me get the table to stay at the top of its container where it should be, rather than getting pushed down by content in the left div? Here's the html code for the page: ...

Detect Internet Explorer 6 or below in jQuery

I'm new to jquery and was wondering: is a simple way to detect whether a browser is Internet Explorer 6 or below? ...

IE 6 and the multiple button elements all sending their name & values.

When using multiple button elements in a form, I realised that IE7 sends the innerHTML instead of the value of the button. All good I thought, I'll simply change my PHP code to this <?php if (isset($_POST['button-name'])) { add_product_to_cart(2); } ?> Now my old friend IE6 is going a little step further at being a nuisance. It s...

good spell checker for IE6?

Please suggest a spell checker for IE6. Preferences (but not mandatory): open source free ajax-friendly If you need clarification please leave a comment. ...

IE hanging, using 100% of the CPU

I have a web application, which in the course of a normal interaction, hangs IE. By "IE being hung", I mean that IE doesn't respond anymore and using 100% of the CPU. The only to get out of this state is to kill the IE process. About the app: It loads only one page in the browser, communicates with a server with Ajax queries, and updat...

Running IE6, IE7, and IE8 on the same machine

Like everyone else ;), I need to test my code on IE6 and IE7. Now IE8 has some great tools for developer, which I'd like to use. I'd also like to start testing my code with IE8, as it will soon be released. The question is: how to run IE6, IE7, and IE8 on the same machine. So far with IE6 and IE7 I've been using Multiple IE. But people ...

Seeing strange behavior on IE6 - I'm clueless

I use the following to implant a script into random websites: (added by webmasters just before /body ) <script type="text/javascript"> var xHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://" : "http://"); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + xHost + "domain/script.js.php?u="+encodeURIComponent(window.location.host)+"' ...

Dude, where's my column?

(Apologies for the title, but that's about how I feel right now.) I've recently been given the… opportunity… to completely redesign the layout of a web site I support. In the interest of keeping my CSS simple and my HTML semantic, I decided to use a modified version of the "holy grail" layout (the main difference is moving the right co...

IE6 positionning

I have position the menu (left) relative to the wrapper every browser display it properly EXCEPT ie6 for win, why ? i try the -50% margin trick i try the display inline trick i try the all relative trick i try the absolute trick Nothing seems to work HELP, any idea ? the link ...

Problem in iE6

I have used the code below to divide the pages into two halves, 28% and 72%. But the background color set by the wrapper tag should fill 28%; in my case it works fine in IE7. In IE6, the background color is visible across 100% of the width instead of 28%. How do I fix this? My code: #wrapper{ float:left; width:28%; back...

Footer overlapping content in IE6

I have a page where the footer is overlapping the content in internet explorer 6. I am attaching paths to screenshot, css files. http://shivanand.in/temp/overlapping-footer.gif http://shivanand.in/temp/skin.css http://shivanand.in/temp/skin-ie.css I am trying to solve since 2 hours without a solution. I need to fix it today. Please...

ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 and IE6?

I recently upgraded an ASP.NET app to .NET 3.5 and switched to the newer version of the ASP.NET AJAX library. In FireFox and IE7, everything works great, in IE6, anything that would perform a callback (Partial Refresh, or calling a PageMethod/WebMethod) throws an error: Object Doesn't support this property or method Line: 5175 Char: 9 ...

IE6 problem: anchor click moves the iframe

We are facing a weird problem in IE6. The page works fine in Firefox and IE7. We have a page which has a div and a iframe within that div Example: <html> <body> ... <div> <iframe src="page.aspx" /> </div> </body> </html> Now assume page.aspx has this code: <html> <body> .. <a href="#" onclick="alert('just an alert');">click me</...

ActiveX Control not running in IE6

I am trying to get some javascript to talk to an activex control. When this works and the JS can get the controls status I get a certain message. If not I get an error message. In IE7/8 you are prompted to accept the activex control (via the warning bar thing), but in IE6 the js just cant get the controls status. I have also tries cre...

How to workaround: IE6 does not support CSS "attribute" selectors

One of the projects which I am working uses CSS "attribute" selector [att] CSS Selectors which is not supported by ie6: Support for CSS selectors in IE6 (look for text "Attribute Selectors") Is there any workaround/hack which is of course valid html/css to overcome this problem? ...

Problem Rendering SIFR with revision 436 on IE6 and IE7

Hi, I seem to have a problem with SIFR3. I'm using version 436 and from all my testing it appears to be a problem associated with IE6 and IE7 as I cannot replicate the issue in Firefox, Chrome, Safari for Windows, or even IE8. The problem is occurring on my company's website and can be seen here: http://www.wyldeia.co.uk/blog.php When...