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All broke up with IE6
I’m at the design stage for a website, and I’ve got it looking pretty good in Firefox, Camino and Safari. But it falls apart in IE6. The sidebar is down by the footer, and there are unsightly gaps in the header. Is it related to using percentages for the widths?
http://www.thriftmac.com/caaglop4
Thanks for any help.
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Re: All broke up with IE6
Often times problems like you are experiencing with IE6 is due to width issues. Make sure you have explicit widths set on major layout elements. Also, make sure that you apply appropriate margins and paddings to everything.
Here is a quick way that I learned a while back that solved NUMEROUS IE6 layout problems for me…
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
Add this to the very top of your CSS. This one simple little rule will often times solve several layout problems, especially in IE6. This rule basically applies a margin and padding of 0 to every single element.
This may not fix your specific problems, but it does solve problems often.
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I’ve set percentage widths for all the major elements. I was wondering if IE6 has a problem calculating them.
I’ll try your trick for zeroing margins and padding. I had done this with body, but maybe that’s not enough. Would some kind person mind checking to see if it worked. I don’t have easy access to Windows.
The CSS is over here: http://www.thriftmac.com/caaglop/styles.css
p.s. Does anyone know of a way for Mac users to check how a web design looks in Windows without buying a new computer? ;) Webshotspro (free version) is too slow. Browsershots seems to only have intermittent support for IE.
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#4 2007-02-28 19:15:53
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Looks like I’ll have to save up for an Intel-based Mac …
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#6 2007-02-28 20:02:53
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Re: All broke up with IE6
I also use Virtual PC which works on G4s & G5s. It’s slow, but fine if all you do is page checking.
In any case you’d want the fantastic Multiple IE Installer
Download and install IE7 first, then follow the instructions above.
Cheers Martin
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#7 2007-02-28 20:17:32
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Also, when running VM’s , make sure that you have enough memory installed.
Max it out as much as you can.
Looks like I’ll have to save up for an Intel-based Mac …
AFAIK, you don’t. supports G4, G5 hardware profiles as well.
But check the docs if in doubt, it will take same time to set it up and configured, and there is evaluation period of course.
regards, marios
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#8 2007-03-01 17:50:33
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Re: All broke up with IE6
mwr wrote:
I’m at the design stage for a website, and I’ve got it looking pretty good in Firefox, Camino and Safari. But it falls apart in IE6. The sidebar is down by the footer, and there are unsightly gaps in the header. Is it related to using percentages for the widths?
For non-business sites, Dean Edwards’ compliance patch for Explorer 5 & 6 proved useful.
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Hmm, that looks interesting. I’ll give it a test run.
I’ve been wondering why some Mac developer doesn’t come up with a web browser with all of IE’s odd behaviour built in — or maybe a way to switch it on. I bet a lot of developers would buy such an animal.
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marios wrote:
AFAIK, you don’t. supports G4, G5 hardware profiles as well.
thats incorrect, it only works on intel macs.
Parallels Desktop for Mac is the leading virtualization solution for the Mac, enabling Mac users to run Windows simultaneously with their Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro Towers.
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Could try QEMU for OSX. It will probably be slow but might be enough to test browser quirks.
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#12 2007-03-10 00:44:42
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sthmtc wrote:
marios wrote:
AFAIK, you don’t. supports G4, G5 hardware profiles as well.
thats incorrect, it only works on intel macs.
Sorry for that, it was some time ago, I testdrieved it, actually the other way around: Linux on top of XP, which isn’t that a good Idea, so I didn’t remember at all, what it supports from the MAC side.
Thanks, for correcting.
regards, marios
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