josephwright
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Posted 2 years ago #
I'm using WordPress (latest stable release) as a CMS for a work related website (http://www.uea.ac.uk/eml). This works fine on most computers, but my boss is still using IE6 on Windows XP. He's seeing a lot of the inline images 'squashed', with the correct horizontal size but the wrong vertical one. Some of these issues disappear on reloading, others do not.
I've had a trawl around for a fix in general CSS terms, but all that comes up is ensuring there is a proper DTD in the pages to avoid quirks mode. That should be fine, so I'm at a loss as to what to do. Any ideas?
He really needs to update his browser. It's almost 10 years old!
You could try looking at conditional comment CSS targeted at IE6 but it's a dreadful browser to try and support. Most professional developers don't bother these days.
josephwright
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
I know, but he's concerned that a lot of other people will also still use IE6 and so it is not just a local issue.
josephwright
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
I should add that what I don't know is what to target to fix the problem, hence asking here. I'd imagined that the core WordPress themes would be 'IE6-safe', as my impression is that there is a large body of work on working round IE6 bugs.
he's concerned that a lot of other people will also still use IE6
Show him these?
http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/ie6-below-5-percent/
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
I don't know is what to target to fix the problem
With IE6, it's always a CSS issue. It's CSS box model was totally broken. Very few (if any?) up-to-date WP themes will support IE6.
