If you are using the * html hack to fix CSS coding in Internet Exploder, make sure to test on IE7.  Some of the CSS errors still exist, but the hack to correct for them was "fixed".  Just a warning from personal experience (recent)

I don´t care any longer about IE6 because it updated itself automatically?!
Good work from microsoft.

Not had the chance to test it yet,

but i'm told the fix is

*>html {



}

 

Have fun!

nybc wrote:

I don´t care any longer about IE6 because it updated itself automatically?!
Good work from microsoft.

According to Google Analytics for my site, 69% of my Internet Exploder visitors are using IE6 still

Steven_A_S wrote:

nybc wrote:

I don´t care any longer about IE6 because it updated itself automatically?!
Good work from microsoft.

According to Google Analytics for my site, 69% of my Internet Exploder visitors are using IE6 still

if you turn off automatic updates or have a copy of windows that is deemed not to be genuine - the update won't take place

Even on some computers that are running genuine copies of windows have yet to be updated.

I've even been shown a piece of software that allows both IE6 and IE7 to run on the same machine (used by a co-worker for development testing)

I'd also like to point out to nybc that the original post was not about caring for IE6, but to help fix CSS for IE7!

nybc wrote:

Good work from microsoft.

Seriously?

Do you have any idea how much of security breach this whole thing could have been?

There were security flaws in some early releases. You don't like viruses or Trojans forcing themselves onto your computer, do you? why feel differently about some software that could have been potentially dangerous?

aknet aka nybc says "Hello".

I didn´t worry about the 69% IE6 users, because I remembered how fast the IE7-update was done in our company and thought this would be elsewhere too. I never had troubles with the CSS in IE6, but I´m not the big designer. I started to learn CSS2 at the end of the IE6-period and I think my decision was right.

(I had a look for that hack, but I never needed one and I couldn´t find sinful informations about it.)

I don´t care that much about security risks because I also use a Firewall and an anti-virus-software.
Microsoft is not my prefered operating system but I can handle it.

My opinion for this special case is, that IE7 will displace IE6 very soon and I have much to learn in this time, so I will shorten it at this point. Wrong?

Northie wrote:

Not had the chance to test it yet,

but i'm told the fix is

Code: css

*>html {



}

 

Have fun!

if you don't mind me asking - what exactly does that fix ?

I mean what does it do ?

Mutilated1 wrote:

Northie wrote:

Not had the chance to test it yet,

but i'm told the fix is

Code: css

*>html {



}

 

Have fun!

if you don't mind me asking - what exactly does that fix ?

I mean what does it do ?

* html {

}

was used to give those styles to all html elements. usually to remove all padding and margins, do you don't have to worry about default margins of block level elements (lists and headings being major ones)

now IE 7 doesn't recognise  * html { but will recognise *>html {

aknet aka nybc says "Hello".

Are we allowed more than 1 member account on SR?

griffinsbridge wrote:

aknet aka nybc says "Hello".

Are we allowed more than 1 member account on SR?

posting whore competition is over, so don't see why not - but then i'm not a mod or admin so can't really say!

don't think its the same person anyway - I seem to remember one or the other of them introducing the other a couple months ago

Hello,

I've was having trouble with IE7 initially, because I was writting code for IE 5 & 6.

So most of pages I made worked well in all other browsers, but not in IE7

Here is my fix...

First I used to use this to make adjustments for IE 5 & 6 (Still do but now I use the new fix)

<!--[IF IE]--
etc....

Now I use

<!--[IF lte IE 6]--

and my pages work great..... in all browsers without any other coding changes.....
because IE 7 renders pages just like Firefox, Opera now

Later Howa

the * html hack is a bit of CSS that most browsers ignore as it's considered invalid.  But IE5.5 and IE6 do pay attention to them, so anything you put after * html would be processed only on those browsers.  So say you had a menubar and wanted each of the blocks to be clickable instead of just the text.  You would do something like:

#menubar a { display:block; padding:10px; border:1px solid #000000; }

but to fix IE, you may have to add:

* html #menubar a { height:1px; }

the height:1px is a trick to get IE to switch on "layout", and because it  follows the * html, it will be ignored by any browser besides IE5.5 or IE6.

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