IE6 Blues

Why on earth do 68% of my website visitors use IE/Win?

Anyway, after banging my head around with CSS to get semantic markup to work with IE and a bunch of other things, I have given up for now.

Just bookmarking some pages about the 'hasLayout' property in IE for future review.

http://www.brunildo.org/test/IEABlock.html

http://www.brunildo.org/test/IEABlock1.html

http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html

An MSDN article on the hasLayout property:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250481.aspx

The Escaping Floats bug:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/escape-floats.html

The Peekaboo bug (Disappearing text!)

http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html

The Holly hack to fix these (no longer valid because of IE7): Using the mysterious box outside the html tag (who discovered this man!?)

http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2&cid=C37E0

The new solution for holly hack [by creating that extra container using conditional comments The #IERoot method:

http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/cc-plus.html