Simon Willison's Weblog: ie6

A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

2019-05-01T20:26:34+00:00

Cracking story by Chris Zacharias about how a team of engineers at YouTube back in 2009 took advantage of some exploits in YouTube’s organization structure (left over from their acquisition by Google) to ship a vague IE6 deprecation warning banner on one of the world’s highest traffic websites, inspiring many other similar banners and resulting in a 10% drop in global IE6 traffic.

Via Hacker News

Tags: ie6, youtube

IE 6 and 7 hit by hack attack code

2009-11-22T15:38:26+00:00

IE 6 and 7 hit by hack attack code

IE6 and 7 have what looks like a buffer overflow vulnerability caused by a strange intersection of CSS, innerHTML and large JavaScript arrays. No exploits in the wild yet but it’s only a matter of time.

Tags: ie6, ie7, microsoft, security

Quoting Charles Miller

2009-09-23T15:08:18+00:00

Ask browser users, and they'll tell you the overwhelming reason why they can't upgrade to a more modern, standards-compliant browser is because their work won't let them. Ask IT departments why this is the case and they'll point to the six- to seven-figure costs of upgrading turn-of-the-century Intranets written to work in, and only in, Internet Explorer 6. Google have provided a way for websites to opt out of IE6 (and even IE7) support without requiring enterprise-wide, Intranet-breaking browser upgrades.

— Charles Miller

Tags: charles-miller, chrome, chromeframe, google, ie6, internet-explorer

Microsoft backs long life for IE6

2009-08-14T14:53:50+00:00

Microsoft backs long life for IE6

Oh FFS... “The software giant said it would support IE6 until 2014—four years beyond the original deadline.”

Tags: browsers, ffs, ie6, internet-explorer, microsoft

10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead

2009-04-15T14:17:14+00:00

10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead

Highlights include child and attribute selectors, 24bit PNGs and max-width and min-width. Simple pleasures, but I can hardly wait.

Tags: brothercake, browsers, css, ie6, maxwidth, minwidth, pngs, selectors, standards

Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008

2008-07-04T09:17:53+00:00

Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008

Interesting move considering BaseCamp is used for communicating with (often corporate) clients. It would be nice to see the browser stats behind the decision.

Tags: 37signals, basecamp, browsersupport, ie6

When Bugs Collide: Fixing Text Dimming in Firefox 2

2008-06-19T18:09:13+00:00

When Bugs Collide: Fixing Text Dimming in Firefox 2

Handy tips from Drew on fixing the glitchy text rendering in Firefox 2 when you animate opacity without breaking alpha-transparent PNGs in IE6.

Tags: browsers, bugs, css, drew-mclellan, firefox, firefox2, ie6, javascript, jquery, opacity, pngs

Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6

2007-12-01T00:03:16+00:00

Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6

24ways kicks off again, with the first article introducing super-sleight, an updated script for getting transparent PNGs to work in IE6.

Tags: 24-ways, drew-mclellan, ie6, internet-explorer, javascript, pngs

Using multiple classes within selectors

2007-11-11T23:07:28+00:00

Using multiple classes within selectors

Pretty much definitive guide to using multiple classes in a CSS selector, including problems with IE 5 and 6 and one way of addressing them using conditional comments.

Tags: css-classes, conditionalcomments, css, ie5, ie6, internet-explorer, russweakley

Seeking market share, Microsoft removes WGA anti-piracy check from IE7

2007-10-05T23:55:51+00:00

Seeking market share, Microsoft removes WGA anti-piracy check from IE7

Hopefully this will accelerate the rise of IE7 over IE6.

Tags: browsers, ie6, ie7, internet-explorer, wga

Quoting Jon Sykes

2007-09-20T13:04:58+00:00

Apparently if you try to remove/destroy/trash a FORM dom node in IE6, it won't delete it, instead creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed.

— Jon Sykes

Tags: ie6, javascript, jon-sykes, memoryleaks

XRAY now works in IE

2007-08-21T08:07:37+00:00

XRAY now works in IE

Westciv’s smart CSS debugging bookmarklet now works in IE 6.

Tags: bookmarklets, css, debugging, ie6, westciv, xray

Fixing GC issues on IE 6: New IE download

2007-08-17T23:50:25+00:00

Fixing GC issues on IE 6: New IE download

Microsoft have released Windows Script Host / Script Runtime version 5.7, which apparently cleans up a bunch of IE 6 memory leaks.

Tags: ie6, internet-explorer, javascript, memoryleaks, microsoft, windowsscripthost

Fixing IE6

2002-09-03T15:13:27+00:00

Jeffrey Zeldman on fixing A List Apart for IE6:

MSIE6 has trouble calculating the heights of block level elements. Eddie Traversa discovered the browser was caching the values it calculated on one page of ALA and incorrectly applying those values to other pages of the site.

Put simply, if the content area on page A was 200px high, and the same area on page B was 400px high, IE6 might display only the first 200px when it loaded page B. The initial value got stuck in the browser's cache. This is the reason that manually reloading (for instance, by hitting F11) "fixed" the bug on a page by page basis.

Jeffrey mentions a javascript fix for the problem which is now in use in ALA's global javascript file, and promises an article describing the fix in the near future.

Tags: a-list-apart, ie6, jeffrey-zeldman