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branchandroot

1/24/08 01:04 pm

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Problems with IE6; help needed in testing

Okay, it looks like IE6 is throwing a real fit about the new layouts. See the very helpful screenshots in this comment.

I've given IJ-sitepage-body a width, so it should have layout and IJ-sitepage-nav should accept absolute positioning within it; apparently the problem is something more arcane.

If anyone has a copy of IE6 in easy reach and wants to poke at the problem, I'd hugely appreciate the help. The only copy I can get to is remote and I can't connect to anything /else/ while using it, which makes testing changes a bit of a trial.

Any ideas are welcome!

ETA: Height of the header is part of it; this... is going to be a pain. I might actually need to add a clearing div to the html code. More news as I can catch it.

ETA2: Triumph! Maybe. I think I've gotten it to play nicely with older IE, but if anyone has a copy of IE5 or 6 hanging around and could give it a test-drive once the code is live, that would be very helpful.

Tags: debugging

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antiaol

1/26/08, 05:35 am

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There's no reason to let Navigator "go hang", seriously. Navigator and Firefox are pretty much the same thing these days - but AOL stopped "support" for Netscape this month (there will be no more code updates or new versions of it...but it's still available for download).

You can use the same plugins for Netscape that you use for Firefox (pretty much all of them, I think) and you can skin it with the same themes, if I recall correctly.

I have a copy of Netscape (v.9.5, I think) and I like it. While I wouldn't muck around with backwards testing for older versions of Netscape, the more recent versions are just Firefox all over again, (or is that vice versa?) so you don't have to worry if the style sheets are already correctly displaying in FF (and it looks like they are) - they will look just fine in more recent versions of Netscape as well.

I'll upload the 5.5 shots shortly....do you want 5.01, too? I haven't captured the pages in that version yet - just 5.5, so let me know.

branchandroot

1/26/08, 05:48 am

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Ah, well that's good, then. The more compatibility the better.

And yeah, if you could hit 5.01, that would be lovely, thank you!

antiaol

1/26/08, 06:08 am

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I think one of you is going to have to install Multiple IE's and finish this up yourselves, I'm sorry - I'm at my friend's house using her dialup (I just realized it's dialup when I visited Photobucket, and she doesn't have a faster connection). I'm using some program she's got to connect to my computer and grab the 2 screens I took last night - one's IE 5.5, one's IE 5.01. The pics are labeled accordingly and should be uploaded...soon, hopefully...

5.5 has a huge scrollbar problem, too much white space on the right, you might want to look at that...5.01 is looking bad all-around, everything is misaligned. I'm going to be working the rest of the weekend so I won't have much more time to jump in on this, either, sorry. Good luck to all of you - I can't wait to see how it turns out, so keep up the great work, surely we all appreciate it.. :-)