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

Answer 1

I wish I knew about quirksmode.org. The compatibility tables, bug reports, javascript examples are all very useful.

Answer 2

That if your really anal and spend shit loads of time on it that it pays off and you then become an IE guru fearing nothing but the sad self you have become...

Although it is nice to impress people with your amazing IE bug fixing abilities...

1. Most IE bugs can be avoided by using different (normally better) CSS methods and super clean logical xhtml
2. Always clear your floats with overflow hidden (or just hasLayout for IE)
3. Understand what hasLayout is (basically a css porperty that gives IE a kick in the ass)
4. When you start devving sites check IE6 all the time, untill your a pro ;¬P

Unfortunately, and I do train a small team of 6 developers, experience is one of the only things that really helps with these problems, stay calm, do good research in google and post your problem to a community if you really are stuck with a good demo of the problem.

Nice links >

1. http://css-tricks.com/ie-css-bugs-thatll-get-you-every-time/ (although I recommend the PNG fix by Bob Osola /-0)
2. http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/ (amazing and funny... great!)

Good luck!

Answer 3

I wish I'd known about

• the conditional comments to include stylesheets just for IE
• xhtml headers to make IE render in compliant mode
• the box model problem, so that I knew what to put in my IE stylesheet

After I learned about these things, I haven't really used a lot of time fixing problems in IE6

.Hauge

Answer 4

I wish I'd known why Microsoft hated me so much.

Answer 5

I wish I'd known about dev tools like Firebug Lite and HttpWatch that make debugging lots easier.

Answer 6

The importance of DOCTYPES in IE, and

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