I don’t like IE 6 on Win2K
Published 6 years ago in design + dev, windowsI loaded this website up today in IE 6 on my Win2K box at work (for the first time), and guess what? It doesn’t display over half of the site… I have no idea why this happens, but its pretty annoying to know that this might have been happening since the day I launched. I’m sure it has something to do with the fact that this site is pure XHTML and CSS, but it works fine on a Mac, in all of the browsers I can find… Why wouldn’t it work on IE 6 on a PC?
If you’ve been reading, and don’t see anything in the content area of this site, below the “Powered By” tag on the right sidebar, then you’re missing a lot of the content of this site. If you care about that, then read the archives… they seem to display in full … or when you come here, drag the IE window just a little wider or skinnier than it was when the site ‘fully loaded’ to get the rest of the site to display. I hate Windows sometimes (and yes, I realize this may be entirely my fault and not IE’s at all).
If you’ve got a suggestion on how to fix it, let me know via comment.
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Here is a full report on this bug and a possible workaround for you:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/03.html#ie_6_workaround_discovered
Mine has the exact same problem. Every browser works fine, except IE6. It’s a CSS bug.
Notice that if you resize the browser, it works Just Fine. Odd.
after posting this, then reading the helpful comment by ‘nfo’ I implemented the javascript hack/workaround that mark pulled from zeldman.com.
if your site is all XHTML and CSS, use the script, so those poor IE 6 users can read your site.
I’ve never had any problem with your site, and I use IE 6.0.26 on Win2K. I just tried surfing it on my wife’s Mac and on Mozilla, and I don’t see any difference. Same hot babes. What other features should I see?