hi Grant, Manfred Staudinger has come up with a nice hack to get around this:
http://staudinger.heim.at/Test/cond_0.html cheers matt andrews canberra, australia. On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:39:09 +1000, Focas, Grant wrote: > Be careful when running multiple versions of IE in side-by-side mode. > I've experienced problems where the IE5 or 5.5 has inherited some of the > properties of IE6, which do not show up when testing on a machine with a > 'proper' version of IE5 or IE5.5. Mostly it's OK but i'm not using it > anymore because i can't trust when it will truly act like IE5.x and when > it won't. > > I'm sorry that i can't be more specific at this point but i've forgotten > which things have been the problem other than conditional comments (ok, > i know i shouldn't be using them anyway...) > > has anyone else had problems? > > Grant Focas > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Nick Lo > Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2004 12:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [WSG] Mac site check please... > > Hi Francesco, > > It has some issues in earlier versions of IE PC You might want to check > out (Just got my multiple versions of IE installed ( > http://www.skyzyx.com/archives/000094.php ) so it's nice to be able to > say that! ). > > I had a quick look in IE Mac and it does have a few things needing > sorting. I started giving it a crack but then thought: You seem to have > a lot of <div> s and a fairly complicated HTML structure for a > relatively simple page. Perhaps the best place to start would be to > simplify as much as possible. e.g. just from a glance: > > <div id="banner"> > <div id="bannerLeft"> > <div id="logo"><img src="media/logo.gif" alt="Blackcoil > Productions" > title="Blackcoil Productions" /></div> > <div id="page"><img src="media/pageHome.gif" alt="Home" > title="Home" > /></div> > </div> > <div id="nav"> > <ul><li id="navHome"><a href="Home.aspx" alt="Home" > title="Home"><img > src="media/navHome.gif" /></a></li><li id="navAbout"><a > href="About.aspx" alt="About" title="About"><img > src="media/navAbout.gif" /></a></li><li id="navCode"><a > href="Code.aspx" alt="Code" title="Code"><img src="media/navCode.gif" > /></a></li><li id="navPhoto"><a href="Photo.aspx" alt="Photo" > title="Photo"><img src="media/navPhoto.gif" /></a></li><li > id="navBlog"><a href="Blog.aspx" alt="Blog" title="Blog"><img > src="media/navBlog.gif" /></a></li></ul> > </div> > </div> > > ...looks like it could easily become... > > <div id="banner"> > <div id="bannerLeft"> > <img id="logo" src="media/logo.gif" alt="Blackcoil > Productions" > title="Blackcoil Productions" /> > <img id="page" src="media/pageHome.gif" alt="Home" > title="Home" /> > </div> > <ul id="nav"><li id="navHome"><a href="Home.aspx" alt="Home" > title="Home"><img src="media/navHome.gif" /></a></li><li > id="navAbout"><a href="About.aspx" alt="About" title="About"><img > src="media/navAbout.gif" /></a></li><li id="navCode"><a > href="Code.aspx" alt="Code" title="Code"><img src="media/navCode.gif" > /></a></li><li id="navPhoto"><a href="Photo.aspx" alt="Photo" > title="Photo"><img src="media/navPhoto.gif" /></a></li><li > id="navBlog"><a href="Blog.aspx" alt="Blog" title="Blog"><img > src="media/navBlog.gif" /></a></li></ul> > </div> > > ...and looks like it could potentially still be reduced. The simplified > HTML would allow simpler CSS and therefore make debugging a lot easier > as well. > > S'what I think anyway, > > Nick > > > From: "Francesco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:47:38 AM Australia/Sydney > > To: "wsg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [WSG] Mac site check please... > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > It looks perfect to me on: Win IE 6, Win FF 0.9, and Win Opera 7. > > > > Francesco > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ > Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge > To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
