I have been working with some javascripts lately, mostly jQuery stuff, and everything seems to be a challenge to fix in Internet Explorer 7, then I test it in Internet Explorer 6 and it’s even worse. I’m getting pretty used to it, but I feel tired of battling, it’s hard to create great functionality without spending hours on fixes. I have taken some steps though.

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The program IETester has turned into a quite usable product. Highly recommended for testing purposes as you can test in IE6 and below, as well as IE7 and IE8 in the same program. Really valuable for anyone that needs to test pages for the mainstream visitors, which are most of us.

Go to download page of IETester

I have just got a new PC at work, so I thought I’d update on the luck of actually solving a problem without spending hours to find out what’s wrong. As you may or may not know, there seems to be a common problem that Acers’ security solution makes Adobe Dreamweaver crash on startup. So after installing my Dreamweaver CS4 which I have had a lot of pains with on the previous PC it was no shock that something was wrong. Luckily I stumbled quickly over the solution, a patch for the Acer program, and that worked. Get it at Egistec.

The blog has been a bit quiet lately, and obviously I’ll only update when I have something useful to put here. The plan is to update soon with the quickest and most painless way to make your site IE6 compatible, especially if you implement your pages using floats. What’s delaying it is the fact that I gave a total toss about IE6 when I made this page, so I have to replace some PNG’s with GIF’s so that it isn’t slowed down by the png fixes you need for IE6. So after I’ve fixed my page, which is the exception of the rule, I’ll post the solution.

Update: The link I previously posted for the fix doesn’t work for me, but I found a new link for the fix.