Techniques for dealing with IE6
The Internet Explorer voodoo doll:
other techniques include drinking a lot of beer!
[caution: puppy sacrifices also recommended!]
The Internet Explorer voodoo doll:
other techniques include drinking a lot of beer!
[caution: puppy sacrifices also recommended!]
sirtokealot posted this at 15:34 — 1st November 2008.
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my best method is to discard and install firefox
decibel.places posted this at 17:33 — 1st November 2008.
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actually one of the methods suggested in the article is to surreptitiously upgrade your client's software at least to IE7 because they just care about being able to click on the blue "e" to go to the internet...
but most of us are developing sites without control over what browser is being used...
Subcitizen posted this at 04:18 — 14th November 2008.
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I wish people would discard it. However, for some reason they don't. Meanwhile, I need to make sure my blog is still readable for the people who still have it. Yikes!
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NickD posted this at 11:47 — 1st June 2009.
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My solution to Ie6 is to pretend it never happened
If you are stupid enough to be still using IE6... Then you dont DESERVE to look at my website.
greg posted this at 12:03 — 1st June 2009.
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I haven't stopped checking in IE6 altogether yet. IE 5.5 sure, but not 6!
April 2009 - 15.4%
And if you are thinking of not bothering checking for 1024 screen resolutions...
January 2009 - 36%
Megan posted this at 15:05 — 1st June 2009.
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You really can't assume that your stats are going to be the same as that. Check your own logs and go from there. There are other factors at play too. Our site is targetting web designers, who should know enough to use an up-to-date browser. So we don't design for IE 6 and show an upgrade message.
Andy Clarke has a good summary of methods of dealing with IE 6, including a controversial proposal to simply serve it a basic, universal stylesheet. I have some comments on my blog.
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greg posted this at 16:39 — 1st June 2009.
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Using one or the other solely doesn't really give you accurate enough data, unless your site is Google or Yahoo.
The % of IE6 users on your site may fluctuate greatly. It might be 1% this month and 10% the next.
So as a general average of "who's using what" I suggest using a site with tens of thousands of hits, like W3Schools, as well as viewing your own log files to see if one trend reflects another.
W3Schools stats are a more accurate representation of the average user, and one in every 6 visitors is significant IMO.
There are plenty of people who already have a website or blog who barely know any HTML or CSS.
This site, by it's very nature, also attracts "noobs" who want to learn, and therefore might not even know they have a choice of browser.
And W3Schools is a place where people go to learn about the internet/HTML etc, and theirs, again, shows one in every 6 visitors has IE6.
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I think stats are not really accurate in general anyway, well, about 85% of the time
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