Re: IE6 quirks

in article 46c8d741_1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, John Hosking at
John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 8/19/07 4:50 PM:

Phat G5 (G3) wrote:
in article C2EE1BAC.7A204%nobody@xxxxxxxxx, Phat G5 (G3) at
wrote on 8/19/07 4:09 PM:
[his local time, I guess]


This is kind of a challenge to the CSS gurus with IE 6. I cannot find a
solution to this and I have tried over and over. My app looks right in IE7
PC and everything else.

*Everything* else? That's a pretty bold claim, and great news if true.
Did you include browsers without JavaScript in your testing? Lynx?
Ok, I see you are a man that requires qualification of statement. The
targeted browsers with the exception of IE6. Safari, Firefox and IE7 work
fine. That short list covers the list of what all I need to cover on an
intranet application

http://new.saguarogold.net

Which requires JS so it can open a pop-up window (sized at 800x600) so
it can open the real URL, which is
http://new.saguarogold.net/menu.html?-session_id=sg:5502DB4513ff327938tHLy1254
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This an intranet app and anything that can be done to stop someone from
hitting the back button is the goal. I did not put in anything to block the
contextual menu or alt-left arrow but that is something I may have to look
into.
That page is -- how shall I put this? -- an amazing piece of work. It
consists primarily of a huge image [oh! except it's been sliced into
smaller ones] representing the content, generated by JS.
Are you referring to the the website that loads into the iframe? I did not
design that. That menu without the individual icons is a pre-made menu
system done in js. http://www.extjs.com
Without JS one
sees an eternally animated "Loading" gif and nothing else. The page
welcomes me as "Steffan Cline" although I do not believe myself to be
such an animal. "I" have one new email but I hesitate to read it.
That is not you of course. It is a place holder as part of the bigger
picture. You cannot access the email there. At one point in time I may
reinvent the wheel and create my own web mail app but at this point in time
it is merely as I said a place holder that tells someone that they have to
login and get their mail via outlook etc.
The animated e-mail graphic on the page completes the retro-nauseous
feel I have been jonesing for, but the main thing I notice is that this
page doesn't even fit into the 800x600 window it's supposedly been
designed for. Of course, that's all in Firefox, a browser where the page
is alleged to "look right."
Well, I can only judge that it looks right when it rendered correctly in all
the "targeted" browsers that I mentioned. That center page when it loads is
not the target in the future. Just an onload test.

Everything gets crammed up against the top and IE6 does not respect the
positioning. It does not even let the ExtJS menu stretch the width. Any
suggestions would be appreciated!

You are right, it looks even worse in IE6.
Yes, hence the subject. IE6 trashes it all.
BTW,

The css *** that contains all the mockup is menu.css. The others contain
the ExtJS style sheets which are fine.

If all the JS pages are fine, leave them out of the example page. The
idea sample page is a simplified page (by direct URL) without JS,
cookies, popups, and known good code.
That is something that probably would have been more appropriate. I will
strip that out and repost.
Of course, known bad code should be minimized, too. But:

Your markup has 7 validation errors; your CSS 140.

In summary: No, on so many levels.

HTH.
I noticed the errors but those are generated by the ExtJS source. I will
upgrade to the newest release and see if that helps any.

As I said earlier, I'll strip that out and repost.

I appreciate the constructive criticism and hope to get a more positive
reaction and advice when done.

Thanks

-S


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