IE6 CSS Fixer: Web-Based IE6 CSS Fix Tool

Umut M. — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:57:15 +0000

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.

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Obituary For IE6

Umut M. — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:34:51 +0000

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

Explorer Exposed!

Position Is Everything provides an amazing list that defines Internet Explorer problems (not only IE6) in detail & shows some workarounds.

IE CSS Bugs That’ll Get You Every Time

CSS-Tricks presents the most common IE6 problems that can be faced including the box model & double margin bug.

IE6 – CSS Bugs and Fixes Explained

Dave Woods explains several IE6 CSS bugs & how they can be fixed.

Unit PNG Fix

A script, inspired from supersleight, to fix the popular transparent PNG problem. There are also many others like:

IE PNG Fix

One of the first fixes which is developed continiously. It adds near-native PNG support with alpha opacity to IE 5.5 and 6.

And there are many others like:

Trying To Stop It!

Stop Living In The Past

A campaign to acknowledge users that still browse with IE6. Users can find the reasons for upgrading IE6 & with a scripr presented a warning can be displayed to IE6 users.

STOP IE6 Campaign

The website lists the reasons why IE6 isn’t needed anymore & provides a script. The script can be installed on any website which will display why users shouldn’t use IE6 to users who visit the website via IE6.

I Dropped IE6

A website that encourages website owners to drop IE6 support & lists the ones already dropped.

Stop IE6

A very similar campaign that aims to stop the usage of IE6. It provides easy-to-install widgets that redirect users with IE6 to their website for informing them.

Even Wrote Letters

Dear IE6

Want to have IE6-related fun for a few moments? Then this website is for you.

It displays short letters – by users - that is written to IE6.

A Letter To IE6

A very funny letter written to IE6. From the letter:

It’s not you, it’s me. You’re still the same girl I met 7 years ago.

There are also letters written to IE6 users like this one.

And, Many Already Decided Not To Support It

Or Support It Partially

Conclusion

If IE6 hadn’t existed, we would probably be more productive by having the time spent on fixing bugs & writing hacks.

And, it is very clear that, if we, web designers & developers, don’t drop the support, IE6 is not going anywhere.