I need someone running Internet Explorer to check out the new lead-in page to the site, and let me know if anything is amiss. Just go to addisonrd.com. Thanks!
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I need someone running Internet Explorer to check out the new lead-in page to the site, and let me know if anything is amiss. Just go to addisonrd.com. Thanks!
Cliff 9:31 am on 9 April 2007 Permalink
IE 6: It’s not centered and the background of the two links is grey.
IE 7: It’s not centered.
In either case the links work right.
michael lee 11:21 am on 9 April 2007 Permalink
thanks, cliff.
Bah. I hate IE. Truly.
Cliff 2:55 pm on 9 April 2007 Permalink
Michael,
I got motivated to go learn something, so I pulled your front page down and started hacking away….
I got some of the issues fixed, but there are a few left.
1. the centering thing: added a wrapper div around box1:
#wrapper {
margin:0px;
width:100%;
text-align:center;
}
Turns out that IE doesn’t center by default, but it also misunderstands text centering and centers divs, too.
Who knew?
2. IE 6 handling of transparency in PNGs. There is a useful site here that describes how to fix this. Just grab the javascript file and stuff the the code to reference it and the problem goes away.
3. Rollovers – Can’t get the image rollovers to work in any version of IE. Also, ‘email me’ does not have the line under it – ever – any version of IE.
Enough mucking about for one day.
michael lee 11:21 pm on 9 April 2007 Permalink
good stuff – thanks Cliff.
I dug into redoing the front page for exactly that reason, to force myself to learn something new. I need an easier way to test things in different browsers though.
Derek 5:09 pm on 10 April 2007 Permalink
The centering can also be fixed in ie6 by using a doctype that is full and valid.
change:
to:
michael lee 5:25 pm on 10 April 2007 Permalink
Derek – you have to wrap it in a “code” tag, otherwise it gets swallowed up by the blog monster.
#example {
background: awesome;
}
Derek 5:33 pm on 10 April 2007 Permalink
I quit.
change:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
to:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>
I would’ve editted that last comment but wp got a MySQL error when I tried.