Alex Panait » Web Design http://alexpanait.com Web Design, Marketing, Affiliates, SEO, Domaining & More Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:05:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 IE6 and Cross Browser Layout http://alexpanait.com/2009/05/06/ie6-and-cross-browser-layout/ http://alexpanait.com/2009/05/06/ie6-and-cross-browser-layout/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 10:15:12 +0000 Alex http://www.alexpanait.com/?p=117 While I was creating a new design for my blog I was stuck when I had to check if the new layout looks good in Internet Explorer 6. For my previous designs I was able to use Multiple IEs, a software that let’s you install multiple versions of IE, to check if the layouts look good in Internet Explorer 6 but since I switched to Windows Vista I cannot run IE6 because of some kernel changes.

The only solution to run IE6 on Vista is to install a virtual machine and run Internet Explorer 6 there but I that takes time and time is precious. After asking some friends to check my blog in IE6 I found out that there are some problems.

Now I have a dilemma, should I bother myself to install a virtual machine and then run XP and IE6 from there or should I forget about IE6 which is still used on a small scale. I analyzed the percentage of visitors that use IE6 to visit my blog and it seems is not such a small percent, about 18% of my visitors use IE6.

Since there is no way that I switch to XP again I’ll leave my blog with the “bad” look in IE6 until I will find a reasonable solution for that and for the visitors that use IE6 I strongly recommend to use Firefox.

]]> http://alexpanait.com/2009/05/06/ie6-and-cross-browser-layout/feed/ 1