Comments on: IE Footer Finally Fixed!

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:01:03 +0000

Instead of bootcamp why dont you all just use virtualbox ? If you have this problem…. If i were you I’d personally not give a fart for IE compatibility

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:07:43 +0000

Quite frankly, I don’t give a damn about cross-browser compatibility. I just design for Firefox and that’s it.

By: teddY

teddY — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:55:00 +0000

You’ve got the point! IE5.5, IE6 and IE7 are completely different from each other, and finding out css and javascript hacks for each of time is the worstestestest nightmare for any designers I’m shocked that IE7 did worse than the oldest version of Firefox in terms of intepretation of css styling.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:04:14 +0000

Hahahah! Probably. I used to have bootcamp with Windows Vista Ultimate on my Mac too. It ate up so much freaking RAM, I decided to delete it. Maybe I’ll install a Windows XP instead.

By: Kiera

Kiera — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:39:54 +0000

I’m a Mac user too. I have bootcamp installed on my mac so I can view things via Internet Explorer, but that’s the ONLY thing I use it for. Maybe in the next four years it will be completely nonexistent, eh?

By: Simply Precious

Simply Precious — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:14:58 +0000

Yep, IE SUCKS! I HATE cross-browser coding because I’d code for FF, and then when I check it in IE, it’s all crazy! Stupid IE! Even worse is that IE 6 and IE 7 are different, so it gets a little more crazier! =(

Oh woah, I didn’t realize that Macs don’t have IE, though…

By: terin selena

terin selena — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:00:33 +0000

UGH! I hate IE! I quit cross-browser coding a long time ago simply because it is way too much of a hassle. I only use Firefox and I really do forget that IE exists. LOL! Only reason I checked my site against it was because of your post.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:15:14 +0000

My boyfriend makes sites and I know very well what problems there are with IE… I had to listen to his curses By the way, he has linux and he had to ask other people with windows for screenshots from IE, or later, when I get a new notebook (whit that stupid windows, i hope vista will fail soon), he worked on my notebook too. Personally I do not use IE much. Only if I want to see a video from one site, because it work only on IE and those stupid people things that they have only visitors from IE…

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:09:25 +0000

I’ve personally experienced the margin problem on my old sites and on Nanyate’s previous layout. It’s very annoying since I’m forced to write a new stylesheet for IE to ‘hack’ all the errors.

There is a javascript hack for the .png transparency problem for IE. But it’s just so much trouble that I end up using .gif and forgo image quality.

Sigh. IE.

By: teddY

teddY — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:15:34 +0000

Thanks for shedding light on this issue, seriously I hated to make my wordpress themes being crossbrowserly compatible. But most browsers like Firefox, Opera and Safari render pages veyr similar to each other, they intepret css and html codes almost the same way… except for Internet Explorer. There are so many famous bug fixes for all the rendering problem in Internet Explorer, even for the latest version (can you imagine not having a bug fixed for the latest Vista version? what a big shame).

As far as I know, here are some of the major bugs:
1. PNG transparency and gamut inaccuracy problem – IE doesn’t support PNG transparency (I’m not sure whether v7.0 does though) and what makes things worse is that it display the colours different than all other browsers.

2. Float problem – all other browsers will display a shorter than expected background when no clear:both property is added before closing the html tag. IE doesn’t, making many pages look VERY faulty in other browsers.

3. Double margin bug. I’m not sure the actual problem (just heard of it, but never got it before). Other browsers will display the correct margin, except IE.

4. Scrollbar problem – by default IE adds a vertical scrollbar to all pages regardless whether their actual height exceeds the screen resolution or not. Very annoying. And not to forget the weird rendering of vertical scrollbars in elements. For example, when you have a very long single-lined javascript you want to post in your blog, you usually wanted to contain it in the >code< tag and set its css property to overflow: auto. Other browsers incorporate the scrollbars outside the >code< tag so it does not interfere with the content of the tag, but IE renders in INSIDE, thus adding a very unnecessary vertical scrollbar.

I think I’m bad at describing! If I find any typical examples online I’ll followup with another comment, okay? I’m sorry!