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Webdesign and IE6 incompatibility – Fix your problems in 5 minutes

Ie7 JavascriptThere are many web developers that make their custom design using standards XHTML and CSS codes. Nowadays we have many browsers using standards from W3C: Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome.

When I develop a website, I find problems with IE6. There are many people that uses IE6 without upgrading to IE7, so, we have to check our website to works also with a non standard browser: Internet Explorer 6.

Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), not support fully CSS and has a problem loading PNG with Alpha transparency.

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There are many CSS tricks to make IE6 compatible with PNG Alpha and other CSS codes, but every webdesigner must spend its time to develop a custom code working only for IE6 and using CSS Conditional Tags.

Why spend so many times to develop for IE6?

Fortunately, a Javascript Genius, Dean Edwards wrote a script called IE7. This amazing piece of code uses JavaScript to make Internet Explorer 5 and 6 behave like a standards-compliant browser.

First of all, you must download Ie7.js (1150) or Ie8.js (782).

Upload these files in website document root, and apply the code below.


To upgrade MSIE5-6 to MSIE7 include the following in the head of your page:



To upgrade MSIE5-7 with advanced CSS features missing from MSIE7 use the following:



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