Tag Archives: internet explorer

Just then, something very mysterious happened.

September 12 09

Earlier today I was working on a website at work that had severe performance issues in Internet Explorer. The site has a healthy amount of Javascript, a significant portion of which was actually written to overcome various bizarre shortcomings of IE6. For example, IE6 doesn’t support the “:hover” pseudoclass for any element that isn’t a [...]

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Not as Many IE Woes?

March 9 09

Mattie had a look at my web app I’ve been working on in his virtual machine and it ran just fine. Now, on the whole, this is very good news, because it means I don’t have to be as concerned about IE6 users. At the same time, though, it also means that I’ve basically wasted [...]

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Internet Explorer 6: The Cancer of the Internet

February 25 09

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a project at my former employers, VSA Partners. I’ve been working on a pretty complicated web application, a sort of live search for product lines where you can drag sliders to specify the attributes you’d like. Very cool, and it works absolutely beautifully in Firefox 2/3, [...]

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