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9 items tagged “ie6”

Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008. Interesting move considering BaseCamp is used for communicating with (often corporate) clients. It would be nice to see the browser stats behind the decision. 4 4th July 2008, 9:17 am

When Bugs Collide: Fixing Text Dimming in Firefox 2. Handy tips from Drew on fixing the glitchy text rendering in Firefox 2 when you animate opacity without breaking alpha-transparent PNGs in IE6. 0 19th June 2008, 6:09 pm

Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6. 24ways kicks off again, with the first article introducing super-sleight, an updated script for getting transparent PNGs to work in IE6. 0 1st December 2007, 12:03 am

Using multiple classes within selectors. Pretty much definitive guide to using multiple classes in a CSS selector, including problems with IE 5 and 6 and one way of addressing them using conditional comments. 2 11th November 2007, 11:07 pm

Seeking market share, Microsoft removes WGA anti-piracy check from IE7. Hopefully this will accelerate the rise of IE7 over IE6. 0 5th October 2007, 11:55 pm

Apparently if you try to remove/destroy/trash a FORM dom node in IE6, it won’t delete it, instead creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed.

Jon Sykes 0 20th September 2007, 1:04 pm

XRAY now works in IE. Westciv’s smart CSS debugging bookmarklet now works in IE 6. 0 21st August 2007, 8:07 am

Fixing GC issues on IE 6: New IE download. Microsoft have released Windows Script Host / Script Runtime version 5.7, which apparently cleans up a bunch of IE 6 memory leaks. 0 17th August 2007, 11:50 pm

Fixing IE6

Jeffrey Zeldman on fixing A List Apart for IE6: [... 147 words]

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