Now Using the Universal IE6 Stylesheet
Published Thursday 18th of June 2009
When looking through the stats for my various sites I noticed that some people are actually still viewing them in IE6. Today I decided to get rid of all my IE6 and IE7-problems forever.
I recently read about Andy Clarke's Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS and decided it was about time I implemented something like this in aFramework.
If you've been following Exscale you'll know that I've used an "IE-warning" for some time, but I very much prefer this approach where IE-users still get a rather pleasant experience (rather than a completely broken site and a warning).
I've still kept the notice though, encouraging IE-users to upgrade to a real browser.
I decided to implement it for both IE 6 and 7. The latter is of course better but it's still pretty bad and 8 is out so there's no reason not to use that if you absolutely must stick with M$.
I'm not just hiding styles but also decided to not give those versions of IE any JS. I build everything with progressive enhancement so the site will still be accessible.
If you're interested in the code used to serve my real style and scripts to everything but IE6 and 7 and the "universal ie6 css" to them here it is:
<!--[if !IE 6 & !IE 7]>-->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" href="real-stylesheet.css" />
<!--<![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 8]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection" href="http://universal-ie6-css.googlecode.com/files/ie6.0.3.css" />
<![endif]-->
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