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Internet Explorer Compatibility Thoughts and "Fixed:Position" methods

Hi, I lately finished my webdesign internet site. Looked beautiful inside Firefox. Then WE viewed it with IE5. It viewed bad, but I figured it’s a vintage browser and not worth plenty of time fixing. Then WE viewed it with IE8… and looked about similar to IE5!!!!! I just simply spent about A FEW hours trying fix 3 things (including " place: fixed", which I will talk more about). You may think " definitely, if IE is a really *! #$, I’ll skip making the site IE-compatible! " Good, no can accomplish, chief. All webdesigners must account for IE, because about 30% of web users use IE. According to Wikipedia, as with Feb 2012: IE : 29. 05% Chrome : 23. 22% Firefox : 21. 76% Safari : 13. 49% Opera : 5. 2% Furthermore, reported by this article within the prevalence of IE6, completely, 20% of clients were still implementing IE6. Webdesigners usually spend 20-50% of their total project time working out IE compatibility. So, if you’re serious about webdesign, you’d better get acquainted with IE-specific issues, maintenance tasks, hacks, whatever. I might suggest bookmarking this function-browser match ups site, " Can one Use" ******* A Breakdown of IE … Continue reading

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