Hunting one of the strangest layout issues in IE – if you hover over an element, the input elements on the page mysteriously move down – we learned about the very strange concept of “layout” internet explorer employs: Give your elements height, width or one of the other CSS-properties that “cause an element to have layout” (I can’t help but giggle when I read this, and I have no clue what it’s supposed to mean) and many of your IE display issues will disappear. >> more…
Next month, we will stop supporting IE6 in conjectPM. This means getting rid of all those “if it’s IE6 add 2 pixels to the y-position”, deleting lots of CSS hacks, throwing away all spezialized stylesheets… we’re already counting the days (great that February s such a short month) and think about having a “hooray, no more IE6!” party.
Or, to cite this month’s ThinkGeek newsletter, “Hearing the news was just like being in high school and getting a pass out of P.E.” (that was about Google stopping IE6 support for Mail and Docs)
As the Issue Manager – a liaison position between our tech support and development – you always discover interesting constellations under which Java applets that our web application uses simply won’t run. A bunch of customers with Internet Explorer 7 or 8 could not launch any of our applets, although other applets worked perfectly fine for them.
Internet research yielded no similar experiences this far, so hopefully this one will help if you are facing the same issues… the message is: keep your system clean!
These were the tests I ran:
- The applet checker on Sun’s Java Website returned a correct installation of the currently up to date 1.6.0_13 JRE
- Entering “javascript:navigator.javaEnabled();” in the URL box returned “true”
To make our user interface more shiny we recently decided to use animated gifs in a couple of places. Especially when using ajax to reload some areas of the page we want to show a spinning wheel 
. For the user it feels more like something is going on (something is beeing processed) instead of having some kind of frozen screen. But with Internet Explorer it is not done with just placing an animated gif in the page. IE stops animating the gif in a couple of scenarios. Here you can see some hacks to convince IE to animated the gifs again: >> more…