Works in ie6, opera and mozilla but not ie5 :(

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Works in ie6, opera and mozilla but not ie5 :(

What can I do?

phidentity

9:18 pm on Feb 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

I have a site that works in all these browsers but not ie 5... I use a lot a few ID tags and they dont display properly at all. They squash into the left side of the page.

I use % values so it works on all res's...

Is this a common bug?

Jon

RammsteinNicCage

9:35 pm on Feb 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

I do have a similar problem with my site using percentages....

Jennifer

SuzyUK

10:27 pm on Feb 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

What Doctype are you using...

is it an "standard" or a "quirky" one?

Suzy

DrDoc

10:38 pm on Feb 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

Since the culprit is IE5... let me guess -- you are using floated divs with margins/paddings?

RammsteinNicCage

3:39 am on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

For me, I'm using xhtml 1.0 strict and absolute positioning. I have a nav div positioned on the left with a fixed width and a content div positioned for some strange reason with a margin-left instead of a left. Once I changed that, it looked better. Now I just have to figure out why I would have put a margin-left instead of a left in there. :p

Jennifer

phidentity

10:43 am on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

Using Absolute positioning (a lot)

Jon

Bigjohn

12:13 pm on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

One can't expect an ancient (in computer terms) browser like IE5 to understand and interpret something newer like xhtml (strict) correctly...

How many people are still using IE5?

grahamstewart

1:12 pm on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

How many people are still using IE5?

According to BrowserNews [upsdell.com] as many as 20% currently use a v5.x (though I suspect most of these will be 5.5+).

Having said that I'm all for messages that say "Your browser is absolutely ancient, please update it, its free and it doesn't hurt".

Sometimes you just have to draw a line in the sand.

RammsteinNicCage

2:45 pm on Feb 17, 2004 (gmt 0)

For my site, I have about 8% using 5.0x. And up to a couple of days ago when I made a couple of changes (went to absolute positioning and went from xhtml 1.0 transitional to strict), my site displayed fine on 5.01 sp1. Now there is a padding issue with the nav list, but I'll play around with that later. I'm surprised that a change from transitional to strict would have caused a problem like that, though. However, considering the site still works pretty well in 5.x, I don't think an 'ancient browser' message is necessary yet, but that's a whooooole different issue. :)

Jennifer