IE6 CSS Fixer is a free web-based tool to decrease the monkey work when starting an IE6 CSS fix file.
It is not a magical one-click solution that will solve every possible problem, it can even create new errors, but it is a handy solution that offers customized fixes for commonly known problems.
The tool simply checks your CSS file & creates new CSS rules for the possible problematic objects. New rules can be inserted as a seperate CSS file easily to check if they cause any problems.
Some CSS fixes it offers are:
- adding
display:inline to floated elements
- converting
min-height values
- fixing negative margins & more.
IE6, well, was a browser with fresh features when it first came out but it is currently 8 years old (must be about 160 human years).
It is still around, mostly because it came bundled with many distributions of the most popular Windows OS ever: XP & bad luck that users still have that old CD.
So, within time, unlike every software, it didn’t disappear, got more powerful & managed to build new communities around it: "designers & developers who try to overcome the IE6 difficulties", "users with bad browsing experiences".. : ).
Now it can even:
- Make a web project development process longer
- Shorten the life of a web designer / developer (that’s what I had tweeted while working on an IE6 compatibility)
But it is time to go now. Hopefully quickly (with the medal).
Within this 8 year period, just for IE6, designers & developers are:
Defining The Problems & Creating Solutions
Position Is Everything provides an amazing list that defines Internet Explorer problems (not only IE6) in detail & shows some workarounds.
CSS-Tricks presents the most common IE6 problems that can be faced including the box model & double margin bug.
Dave Woods explains several IE6 CSS bugs & how they can be fixed.
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