handy bag of ie6 tricks

for when you need an alternative to data:uri that works w/ IE6-7

yet another transparent png fix in js

using try {} finally {} syntax to deal with IE6 memory leak

first major web app to not support IE6. A milestone in the history of browser support. IE6, why won't you die!?

Campaign to encourage users to upgrade to IE7 to "save the developers" ... I'd be more into this if I thought it'd help...

"By flicker, I mean where an image disappears for a short time when the mouse is moved over or out of the it. From time to time you will also see a distortion where some part of the page will show behind the image or garbage will be drawn in its place on

run ie using DarWine on OS X -- running in parallels/etc. is still better, but this is handy for when you don't want to boot the whole VM to test some CSS

Yay! Windows pirates will now get IE7 regardless of their "genuine advantage" status

Installs side-by-side standalone versions of IE for you. Works very well.

IE6, I hate you...

A good overview of why IE6 sucks!

Applies to IE7 and earlier: "Microsoft Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) length of 2,083 characters. Internet Explorer also has a maximum path length of 2,048 characters. This limit applies to both POST request and GET request

Simple CSS hack to simulate "min-height" for IE6; useful if you have given up on IE5.5; IE7 and better browsers support min-height

standalone IE6 browser; now that XP insists I update to IE7 I need a way to test with IE6 ...

I had been using IE7 Stand-alone and not allow Windows to update IE... not sure if that is still the best way. Running VPC seems like overkill ...