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Stop Complaining About IE 6

February 2, 2010

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Note: This is off-the-cuff. If know many will disagree with me. If you’re one, sound off in the comments. Of course, if you agree with me, I’d love to hear that too.
Internet Explorer 6 is a pain. Every Web professional knows this. Every one of us has cursed its name countless times. It [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit

March 5, 2008

Microsoft has posted the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit page. While the links don’t work quite yet, odds are good that an announcement will be made at MIX. Hat tip to Jonathan Snook for the link.
There’s some interesting information available on the site, including how to make your site “light up” on IE8:

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A Good Day for the Web – IE8 to Properly Support Standards

March 4, 2008

The IE team announced a change from their previously stated plan for IE 8 ‘involved showing pages requesting “Standards” mode in an IE7’s “Standards” mode, and requiring developers to ask for IE8’s actual “Standards” mode separately’ via a specific bit of meta information delivered per page or at the server level. After a lot of [...]

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IE to Eliminate the Click to Activate Requirement for Flash & ActiveX

November 8, 2007

About six months back, Microsoft was forced to hobble the usability of Internet Explorer as a tactic in their legal battles with Eolas. This lead to much consternation within the Web development community and too much time and money spent implementing a JavaScript workaround that ensured that user’s aren’t forced to click every bit of [...]

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IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine

December 1, 2006

Microsoft has done a surprisingly cool thing – they have released a virtual machine for VirtualPC that has Windows XP pre-activated to make testing your design in IE 6 & IE 7 on the same machine even easier.

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Eliminating the IE duplication bug

May 30, 2006

This site demonstrates a few ways to eliminate the duplicate characters bug, which is one of the most annoying issues in IE 6. The bug causes the last character(s) within a float to appear twice, the second instance being outside the float itself. This issue has stolen many hours of my life and caused more [...]

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max-width in Internet Explorer

May 15, 2006

max-width in Internet Explorer

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Clearing floats without structural markup in IE7

March 27, 2006

Clearing floats without structural markup in IE7

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