IE6 Compatability

[brentnl]

Hi Guys,

I've one 'simple' question: could someone take a look to [iurl=#]this[/iurl] website and help me to make it IE6 compatible?

I'm using ietester to virtually test IE6. It simulates IE6.

The main problems are:
- Some images are getting randomly stretched/resized without any reason, I've specified the height and width....It appears to happen in the left sidebar, the upper one..
- Some menu-items are getting resized/stretched when opening the website, but this is random, just like the problem above
- In the main content area there are several links which are unclickable. It looks like some hidden shield is above my website which disables the clicking of the links beneath. At the bottom of the content area and in the footer the links are clickable...very weird... I had this problem before, but that was because of the menu template.. an tag wasn't closed properly in the menu template, so the invisible shield I described above acted like a huge link to that last unclosed menu item. after I closed the menu item in the template the link disappeared, but the shield still exists.

thank you in advance!

[Fraserm]

All the problems you describe in your original post are there in IE8 as well.

[brentnl]

mhh... You're right... a "fixed" that with this meta tag

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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>

that's just a temporary solution, but I couldn't find anything else... this is my menu template by the way...

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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"/>

[brentnl]

I fixed most of the problems!!! it was the pngfix I used... it was corrupt or something, but when I usedanother one almost everything was allright..

2 things left:
- @ the media page, the header isnt working because of the mediaplayer in the page. This is caused by swfobject I guess.. but how do I fix this?
- the dropdown menu isn't working, at [TICKETS] there should be visable 3 items.

[benchfrooser]

Just don´t make websites IE6 compatible. 

[brentnl]

Just don´t make websites IE6 compatible. 

Unfortunately uses 30% of the visitors IE6... 

But where almost there, the only thing remaining is the dropdown menu.. it couldn't be that hard..

[benchfrooser]

30% is a lot. On my local site in Germany only 10% of the visitors use IE6.

[mcDavid]

Just don´t make websites IE6 compatible.  ;)

Unfortunately uses 30% of the visitors IE6...  ;)

But where almost there, the only thing remaining is the dropdown menu.. it couldn't be that hard..

That's the hardest part. As IE6 doesn't support the psuedo-class :hover on other elements than , you'll need javascript to get dropdownmenu's working.

But as it's just one item, something like this can be enough:

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this.getElementsByTagName('ul')[0].style.display='inline';