Posts Tagged ‘IE6’

Web DPI Scaling in legacy Internet Explorer July 16, 2011 No Comments

When dealing with Web sites or applications that need to be highly accessible, you can often get tossed development curve balls where you are forced to add fixes for obscure problems. Users with poor vision will sometimes change the DPI scaling feature in Windows  from the default 96 dpi to something higher.  With older versions [...]

CSS Tip: Floats and Parent Containers February 4, 2011 No Comments

One of the first traps people fall into when learning CSS deals with the mystical float property. Floating content in pages is something that needs to be done with finesse or you can get some weird behavior in your pages. Some people dismiss this weird float behavior as a browser quirk instead of trying to [...]

Fixing image caching and lack of PNG support in IE6 August 27, 2010 No Comments

This is more of a reminder for myself than anything else, but it may help others. How To Solve Flickering Background Images If you’re using CSS sprites as background images for links or buttons, you’ll notice that the image will flicker briefly in Internet Explorer 6. The reason is because IE6 doesn’t properly cache the [...]