THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: demi on July 11, 2008, 10:05:34 PM
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I'm making a new site, and I dont even want to care if people use IE6 and shit. It's 2008, be real now. I want my fucking transparent PNGs, you know?
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Our browsers at work are IE6. At my former place of employment, I think they still use IE5x, but they may be at 6, as well. In fact, I doubt very many average internet users are using an IE version other than the one that was installed by default when they bought their computer (or upgraded their OS).
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Well there's 30 million people with FireFox 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox_3#Guinness_World_Record) and a ton more with Vista, so it has to be phased out at least.
I don't really care. If they got a problem, all it takes is one little install.
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lol IE lol
FF ftw
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Does anyone use IE6 on this board? I need peace of mind knowing my site looks somewhat bearable at least. A screenshot will do.
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NO.
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Someone has to... I mean I think my site looks pretty tits right now in IE7 and FF3, but I know it is probably a garbled mess in IE6.
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How different from IE6 is Firefox 2? I don't use Firefox that often, don't see the need. I haven't upgraded to 3.
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is it a personal site, because you can use javascript to make the transparent pngs work in older browsers with some code
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I'm still on win98.
Guess I mis out. :(
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I'm still on win98.
Guess I mis out. :(
O contraire. Looks like you're going to win the "test demi's site on a lesser browser" contest.
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is it a personal site, because you can use javascript to make the transparent pngs work in older browsers with some code
Yeah I read about all these PNG fixes, but it's like, I shouldnt have to do that, if you havent upgraded then you deserve to be left behind. I had to upgrade my PC to play these new games on it.
It's a personal site... I am making a new layout for my site.
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I very much agree with that stance
die ie6, die
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Is there a simple PNG fix you had in mind? Mupepe IM'd me about IE6 so hopefully I'm not in too much trouble.
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I was thinking of: http://clientside.cnet.com/wiki/cnet-libraries/01-browser-fixes
which uses mootools: http://mootools.net/
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Mupepe said the site looks just fine, aside from the transparent PNG (it's a PNG24 that uses alpha transparency), so I guess if I can get that image to work in IE6 then i'm cool
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Viz - where do I put in the command for the fixPNG(); ? I download the Mootools + fixPNG addon from that site, and I uploaded the .js, but where would I set up for my background image to be transparent? I have it in CSS right now. The site just says:
fixPNG('fixPNGDivExample');
But I have no idea what that even means.
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I have IE6
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Well you make me want to hurt myself
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Well, I also use Firefox 3 but given your post, I will use only IE6 from now on.
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Oh yeah, well you do that, IE is better than FireFox anyway -- I use IE7 as my main browser
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man I haven't messed around with this stuff in a long while
but first make sure the two files are included in the <head></head> tags:
ex:
<script type="text/javascript" src="mootools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="fixpng.js"></script>
then I think you just make sure the div class with the png background is "fixPNG" or whatever
i dunno
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I read about it some more, and apparently none of the fixes even work on repeating backgrounds, so I am SOL either way. The rest of the site looks fine anyway, it's not the end of the world.
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I'm still on win98.
Guess I mis out. :(
In before dcharlie
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People still use it.
I hate them :maf
They make life in the web industry soooo much more of a pain in the ass.
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Just code in something that checks the browser and tells the viewing to fuck themselves if they're using IE6 and below.
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Does anyone use IE6 on this board?
I find that offensive.
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I'm still on win98.
Guess I mis out. :(
you just blew my mind
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I'm still on win98.
Guess I mis out. :(
Is it at least Second Edition? :-\
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I skip IE6 on personal sites.
Use this: http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/
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That's what I used, APF, but it says that it doesnt work on repeating backgrounds, which is the image in question for me
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Doesnt achieve the same effect I wanted.. it's a gradient drop shadow on the sides, which is on top of an already repeating background so I want it to see through - which uses alpha transparency (PNG24)
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(http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5365/28195957aj6.png)
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The IE .png stuff can work for a stretched BG (you change the render mode from "crop" to "scale"), but you might have to hack the pngfix (not sure; I do it manually on production sites nowadays). Sometimes that doesn't work though, so you may have to fake it with a huge .gif for IE6 only.
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I'm still on win98.
Guess I mis out. :(
Is it at least Second Edition? :-\
I should have spoiler tagged a j/k or something. I'm running XP 64 bit cause it was free.