Browser Version Market Share for September 2007
I have been looking for a source for stats on browser marketshare, and what do you know, I’ve found it. There is a site called Market Share that apparently publishes this information on a monthly...
View ArticleDowngrading Web Page Layouts for IE6
Lately, I have found that it is easier to allow a page to display differently in IE 6 than it is to make that page display the same way in IE6 as it does in other browsers. Think about it. Let’s say...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 7: The First Year
Microsoft updated their IE blog last Friday, with a post on the one year anniversary of IE7. Most interesting to me, was this piece. There are over 300 million users are experiencing the web with IE7....
View ArticleBrowser Testing for Internet Explorer
As a web designer, you should make sure that you test your designs across all major browsers. Here is the list of browsers you should be testing on, if you aren’t already, in no particular order....
View ArticleThe X-UA-Compatible Situation
Just when I was excited about the fact that Microsoft is starting to talk about IE8, this happens. At the same time, A List Apart published 2 articles, Aaron Gustafson talks at length about why this...
View ArticleIE6 3 Pixel Float Bug
So I ran across a nasty bug the other day in Internet Explorer 6 that I had never seen before. The bug is when you have 2 adjacent elements and one of them is floated, IE6 adds a 3 pixel margin to the...
View ArticleBizarre Empty Div Line-height Bug in IE6
File this one under, you may have seen it before, but I ran across a very weird IE6 bug yesterday. This bug gave me a fit, and I hadn’t encountered it before, at least I don’t remember it. The problem...
View ArticleRepeating Background Bug in IE 6 and 7
I discovered an interesting bug that occurs in both IE 6 and 7 the other day. Actually, I had seen it before, but I had never been able to figure out a cause or a fix until now. The bug occurs when you...
View ArticleGetting Overflow Hidden to Work in IE
This is an easy fix, but I thought it was worth a post anyway, in case someone comes across it. Setting overflow: hidden on a block element does not work in IE, if width and height are not set. But, it...
View ArticleSupport for old versions of Internet Explorer to be dropped—in 2016
Progress! But all that is set to change under a new support policy announced today that is scheduled to take effect in about 18 months. Starting January 12, 2016, only the newest version of Internet...
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