In an effort to help other web designers save some time, I’ll be doing a series of “Web Design One Sheets.” In short, these are printable cheat sheets. I’ll try to cover as many different web design topics as possible. I hope you find these helpful. If you have any suggestions, corrections, or directions please let me know.
The first in the series is a one sheet all about Doctypes. Download below.
August 27, 2001. For web developers, that is a date that will live in infamy. On that unassuming August day, Internet Explorer 6 was officially released. No one could have foreseen the headaches IE6 would cause for developers. Who could have known that in late 2009 Internet Explorer 6 would still have 12.1% market share, forcing us to make sure our sites play nice with it. There have been many attempts to bring down our foe (here’s one, here’s another), but alas, IE6 won’t go down quietly.
IE6’s problems are well documented, but luckily for us a lot of smart people have found ways fix (or side step) those problems. Here is a huge list of hacks, fixes, and resources to make IE6 a little less painful.
More than likely if you’ve heard of only one IE6 bug, the box model bug is the one. In short, IE6 incorrectly calculates the width of a given box causing all sorts of layout problems. Here are some ways around this annoying bug.