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October 9, 2003

IE6 Peekaboo Bug - Fixed?

Every once in a while I would get annoyed as I'd have to scroll certain pages on this site to see the text. When the page initally came up, the text wasn't there. I went to the MT forums and found this thread. It referred to the IE6 Peekaboo Bug, which appeared to be what I was seeing. I placed a few "line-height: 1.2em;"s in my stylesheet and it looks like that fixed the problem. It was occurring on at least the Comments page popups and the individual entry pages. If you are an IE6 user and you happen to see it anywhere else, please let me know.

Update: Coincidentally, News.com is running an article on IE's lack of W3C compliance. The quotes from MS are particularly smug. (Source: Slashdot)

Posted by Alex Harden on October 9, 2003 9:14 AM |

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Designing webpages with IE6's lack of W3C compliance is a pain sometimes. Particularly when you go without tables. IE seems to have trouble counting pixels correctly. Anyway, the browser is ancient, it was released prior to Windows XP even being on the market. You would think they would of comeout with an upgrade or something by now.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a decent browser, I kind of switch back and forth between Mozilla and IE6. Depends on my mood.

Posted by: Scotbuff | October 9, 2003 4:10 PM

Ah yes... now that Microsoft has won the browser wars they no longer need to fix anything.

Scotbuff's right - Firebird is awesome. It's as fast as IE, is very customizeable, and pages look the same on Windows and Linux (haven't tried the Mac version yet...)

Posted by: Don | October 9, 2003 4:35 PM

Ahh... discussion!

Because neither IE nor Mozilla have an easy way to toggle your proxy server settings, on my work computer (an XP laptop) I use IE at work (behind the proxies) and Mozilla Firebird at the other times. I mix them up at home as well, to see how my site looks under both. However, since I have a lot of cookies, the incumbent IE is usually the one I use for my frequent sites.

Posted by: aharden | October 9, 2003 10:25 PM

I just noticed I typed Thunderbird on my first comment. I meant Firebird. I had Thunderbird on my mind at that moment. I like the Thunderbird email application from Mozilla as well. Easy setup as well as migration of my mail from my old mail application.

Thunderbird even worked great with a little application I use called YahooPops! which enables you to download mail from your yahoo mail account without paying for their pop service. You can even set YahooPops to empty your bulk folder.

Posted by: scotbuff | October 10, 2003 7:48 AM

I knew what you meant, Scott... ;)

I'll probably check out Thunderbird for my home email since I've had problems in the past with large folders in Outlook Express and it's now officially a dead-end app.

Posted by: aharden | October 10, 2003 9:10 AM

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