What do you wish you knew before you spent hours trying to fix a bug in IE6 [closed]

Answer 1

I wish I'd known that many IE 6 error line numbers are off by one.

Answer 2

http://www.pushuptheweb.com/ or one of many other sites pushing to drop IE6 support. I'm aware that rendering web pages correctly for IE6 visitors is the core of many web businesses, but sooner or later something has to give. I just dont get why MS doesn't force an update >.<

Answer 3

Probably that SELECT elements dont render with the correct z-order.

For example, if you have a floating DIV with a higher z-order overlayed on top of a select - the SELECT element will still render on top of the DIV.

Infuriating.

Answer 4

The main problem we have had is with scheduling enough "fix in IE6" time. That and the designers' tendency to come up with stuff that is easy to do in Flash and tricky to achieve in CSS has cost us many days of extra work.

Answer 5

I wish I knew that my code didn't validate. Or that an XML declaration in XHTML puts IE into quirks mode.

Answer 6

I wish I'd known that I'd be spending hours trying to fix a bug in IE 6 over and over again for years on end and I really would have been happier delivering pizza.