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Is it ethical to follow company policy when you think it's wrong?

It's been suggested to me that I resign, as the company where I work is insisting that I code various functionality to work in a particular way which is only supported by Internet Explorer. I believe I'm doing the right thing by complying with the policy, even though I've raised objections about it. is this the right approach? This re...

Can I detect IE6 with PHP?

Is there a way to use PHP to detect if the page is being loaded using IE6? ...

RSS Browser Detection

OK, I don't understand this at all. This is the BBC's RSS feed ( http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml) If you view it in ie6 it appears to be styled with a custom stylesheet (nosol.xsl) If you view it in firefox or ie7 the browser's default rss feed styling is used. I tried to do something similar my...

Why is IE6 still a corporate favorite in some organizations?

... or How can I convince my organization to ditch IE6? Having to maintain IE6 compatibility when developing web apps is a nightmare - but until my client decides to ditch it as the official browser, I am stuck with it. I am trying to convince our SysAdmins to change. I've seen a long list of arguments against using IE6 in any environ...

Conditional comments not loading IE6 specific css file

I'm trying to override a few css selectors that are causing problems in IE6 by using the following code inside the head tag in an html file: <!--[if IE 6] <style type="text/css"> @import ("ie6.css"); </style> <![endif]--> This code comes after the main stylesheet loads, and no other stylesheets get loaded after the conditional com...

2 column full height layout in IE6

So I am trying to replicate this in IE6: http://lynet.ca/~alumb/layout.html It works perfectly in FF and Chrome, but fails miserably in IE6. Any suggestions? Here is the full set of requirements: +-----------------------------+ | NavBar | |-----------------------------| |Menu | Content | | | ...

Multiple IE instances on one machine.

Hi, I am looking for a tool that can allow me to run IE6, IE7 (and IE8 if possible) on my machine. I found something on the net like this and some other interesting solutions but I need your opinion based on experience-which is the best choice for running multiple IE instances from the point of view of a web-developer. Edit: thank yo...

jquery change event trigger

Hello everyone, I have a problem in need of help of JQuery. JQuery give my input to increase the use of case change. the code: #(".inp").bind("change",function (){ if(isNaN(this.value)){ this.value = 0; } } When I first time to enter characters, change case happened, input values changed to 0 But when I enter the same charact...

sIFR 3: IE6 Extra Spacing

I'm using sIFR 3 on the following website http://www.bevelite.com.au/test2 which works a charm! The only problem is that I've got a footer div set to sit absolutely at the bottom of the page which it does but once sIFR has finished rendering it puts some extra space below the footer, defeating the purpose of my absolutely positioned foot...

Accessing resources locally in an applet on IE6

Was trying to follow http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/icon.html when came across error. Seems that getResource returns null when accessing the page locally (i.e., when URL is, say, "C:\projects\html\test.html") in IE6. Class and resource are in same JAR file. Anybody know the reasons and a work-around (if one...

jQuery Datepicker closes on click, IE6

I'm using jQuery 1.3.2, with jQuery UI 1.7.1. I'm using a DatePicker attached to a text input field. It opens and renders fine in all browsers, and works perfectly in IE7, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. However, in IE6, when I click anywhere on it, it closes without performing any action. Also, none of the hover effects work (e.g. when hov...

Internet Explorer 6 does not display my navigation

Hello, I am having a nightmare, been trying all day with this, and searched google with no success. I have a little navigation that is floated to left and I wanted to make it work for RTL language. It worked fine in FireFox but IE6 does not display it at all. Can someone tell me why? The HTML is the default markup.. nothing fancy <di...

What would cause Flex/Flash preloader to hang over HTTPS in IE6?

I am deploying a Flash SWF which was built using Flex (3.2) / flexbuilder. It is a single SWF which doesn't do any further data requests of its own. It has some preloader code to display a progress bar when it is loading (it is approx. 650mb). It works fine in almost all environments, but when deployed over HTTPS it fails to load - on...

Why doesn't my site work in IE6 or IE7?

For some reason my site http://tom.hsc.be displays a "Cannot display this message" error in those browsers while working correctly in Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE8. It looks like this: http://www.reviewsaurus.com/images/pagedisplay.png This document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Found the problem: Was using the...

IE6 png bug; links don't work?

After many hours I figured out why the links within my pngs in IE6 do not work. It's because Im using filter:progid:dximagetransform.microsoft.alphaimageloader within my CSS. Yet after many more hours I have not found a solution to fixing these links. Here is my code... HTML <div id="fullwidth-header-wrapper"> <div id="header"> <s...

IE6 Text Resize in JavaScript Modal

I am having an issue where IE6 will not re-size the text in a JavaScript generated modal window. If I leave the parent page text size at medium open the modal window and then re-size the the text to largest, the text becomes cut off in the modal window. If I close the modal window and leave the text size at largest, then re-open the moda...

jQuery ajaxForm plugin not running success function in IE6

I'm using the jQuery plugin ajaxForm to submit a file upload form via AJAX. The script submits the form, which, upon success, runs uploadResponse() that adds a new row into a <table> on the page. It works fine in Opera, Firefox, Safari, IE7, and IE8. However, IE6 does not run the uploadResponse() after the form has been submitted. Th...

In CSS, getting a logo to position over a central layout and stick out to the left?

Hello there, I'm really stuck here... I have a site layout with a central layout (it's about 922px width, centered on the page)... I have a little logo that is to the top left of this, but it sticks about 10 pixels to the left of the central design. If you can imagine, it sort of sticks out to the left of the design... Now, I was told ...

CSS: How can I overcome negative margin and absolute position issues in IE6?

I'm using absolute positioning and negative margins (with top: and left:) to position logos and other such things in my website. I'm aware that IE6 has problems with negative margins and absolute positioning, how can I overcome these issues to ensure they work correctly in IE6? ...

Why are people still using IE6?

Duplicate: Why is IE6 still a corporate favorite in some organizations? How to (kindly) ask your users to upgrade from IE6? I am really tired of dealing with IE6. I want to do something about it. I appreciate the work put into the Stop IE6 Campaign. Thanks guys! However, I'm not sure they're really attacking the problem. Why are...