Drawar

It looks okay here but I'm not on a "traditional" set-up.

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Thanks Oli!
I am trying to at work today.. and here on 6.0 ie I noticed something strange.. the top half looked fine, but the bottom half was all white.. not sure what is up with that. Nor am I sure why it (halfway) works here but doesnt work at all at home.

I am going to forward myself a screenshot from here so I can look more into it at home.. very strange! It seems to show up fine on yours... IE always seems to make me shake my head.. I almost dread V8 coming out.

Well, I figured out what the problem was - and it was a strange problem I had not seen before.

When i saved the back.jpg for the background, I was saving it with the "progressive" checked. But, if I unchecked the "progressive" it saved it and IE 6.0.2900 that came with the XP image (From MS for developers - they distribute an XP image with IE 6 so people can test ie 6 under Microsoft Virtual PC) showed it just fine.

So now, I am wondering if the "progressive" form of images exported from Adobe PS and Illustrator present a problem with this version of IE. I tested it multiple times with multiple images and every time - same result - If I saved an image progressive, it would not display in IE6 ^ but if I unchecked it, it is fine.

Weird.

Hi Erica, your design look great in IE6, but the footer navigation area looks weird in IE5.5 and the menu doesn't work.
I always use the standalone version of IE (3.0 - 5.5) to test my designs.

Thanks elixir2004!
I was unaware of the standalone version , so I have not tested with it before. Usually, I try to get sites to work right in ie6 + but now that I know of this, I will download it and give it a try. Thanks for the heads up on that!

elixir2004 I have downloaded it and tried ie5.5, and I am not sure I am going to get it to work in that version :(.

The bottom half is actually a spry from Dreamweaver using JS and CSS. I have tried to tweak it in multiple places, but I have a feeling that the CSS is what is not rendering correctly in ie 5.5. I am not sure if that version of the browser has the correct support for the version of CSS I am using. either that, or it is the Javascript. But, either way.. I am not sure I am going to get it to render much better under 5.5. I will keep looking and trying though.

As of right now, I should have it working correctly on

• IE 6, 7 and 8 (windows)
• Safari 3 (windows)
• Firefox 2 and 3 (windows)
• Opera 10 (windows)
• Flock (windows)
• Sea Monkey (windows)

@ Erica - I wouldn't lose sleep over IE 5.5 unless a large proportion of your audience use it that is.
Personally I don't even bother testing in IE 5.5.
IE 6 is the lowest common denominator for me (visual graphic browsers)
I think Jakob Nielsen said that if there is less than 10% visiting your site using a certain browser then it is acceptable to stop supporting that browser.

All the browsers you have covered should give you no problems, so don't worry about IE 5.5!

I like progressive enhancement_a_lot!! :-)

Johnny is right Erica, dont loose your time with IE5.5. I have to test my design with IE5.5- because i live in Peru, and many pp have old machines. So, as Johnny said, don't worry about IE5.5-, unless a large proportion of your audience use it that is.