Project: Make a page that renders perfectly on Firefox while breaking to shits on IE6 PoC

[Erp]

My school uses IE6 and was wondering if we could all come together to make a page that will display amazingly and perfectly with Firefox 3.6 and then wreck to pieces on IE6. I will then show this to my IT department at school and see if they can change their ways.

I can't really think of much to do besides use html5 and css3 because I've never really tried breaking IE6, I am usually trying to fix it.

[cas97]

Make a page as usual. IE won't display it properly anyways.

[torekk]

Basically a "hey guys, let's do my homework together so I can get positive feedback in school"? No.

Also there should be plenty of sites already available, just google for some.

Then again, why do you need Firefox in school? You're supposed to follow the lessons and not browse the web(well I wasn't listening either, but that doesn't means you should, I got my C grade in IT class due to it, just saying).

[BrQ]

[QUOTE=Torekk;25439786]Basically a "hey guys, let's do my homework together so I can get positive feedback in school"? No.

Also there should be plenty of sites already available, just google for some.

Then again, why do you need Firefox in school? You're supposed to follow the lessons and not browse the web(well I wasn't listening either, but that doesn't means you should, I got my C grade in IT class due to it, just saying).[/QUOTE]

I think you're missing the point
He wants to show that using ie6 in 2010 is a very dumb thing to do and apparently his school still uses ie6. He wants to demonstrate that they should go to something like Firefox or at least ie8.

[Erp]

[QUOTE=Torekk;25439786]Basically a "hey guys, let's do my homework together so I can get positive feedback in school"? No.

Also there should be plenty of sites already available, just google for some.

Then again, why do you need Firefox in school? You're supposed to follow the lessons and not browse the web(well I wasn't listening either, but that doesn't means you should, I got my C grade in IT class due to it, just saying).[/QUOTE]
Not homework, just want to show how shit IE6 is when rendering newer anything. It's pretty annoying when the teacher tells us to check our email and it doesn't work because the school's still using IE6.

[torekk]

I doubt that IE6 fails to render most email services(e.g. google mail, yahoo...) or other sites like wikipedia.

I was just saying that there's no real need for schools to change their default webbrowser, then again if your school's computers would be configured well, you won't even be able to install any program.

Atleast we got that in our school, it was basically cloud computing, the computers were basically just the client, and the actual work was done on their server. So each time you logged in, the system loaded configurations from the server, which prevented us pupils to install anything.

Long story, short point: It's basically useless for your school to update. Never heard of "never touch a running system"?

I'm not saying they should stick to IE6, there's just no real point in my opinion for them to do all the work and install a new browser, just because you're telling them IE6 is old.

Also it's not IE6's fault that websites display wrong, it's mostly the developer himself, because he didn't implement a fallback. You can't just tell all people to change to a newer browser, just because you're incapable of optimizing your website for older browsers as well. And a lot of people still use IE6.

[Blade]

Use javascript, guaranteed it will break.

[mindexplosion]

Acid3

[BrQ]

[QUOTE=Torekk;25440199]I doubt that IE6 fails to render most email services(e.g. google mail, yahoo...) or other sites like wikipedia.

I was just saying that there's no real need for schools to change their default webbrowser, then again if your school's computers would be configured well, you won't even be able to install any program.
[/QUOTE]

I don't really see how you were saying this in your first post

There are plenty of reasons to upgrade from IE6 to a better browser. I'll just keep it short by saying 'slow', 'unsafe'. Oh the rendering.

[mindexplosion]

Our primary school used IE6 and the school was going to upgrade to firefox but they didn't.

High school isn't any different, they use IE8 and it's a piece of shit.

[X'Trapolis]

<script>for(x in document.write) { document.write(x); }</script>

[Fate]

<!--[if IE 6]>
<script>
d=document.getElementById('Most important part of site here.');
d.style.visiblity='hidden';
</script><![endif]--> 

[chrishind10]

CSS3, go on, break it!

[{ABK}AbbySciuto]

Make a page using HTML5.

[Qombat]

[QUOTE=Erp;25439492]My school uses IE6 and was wondering if we could all come together to make a page that will display amazingly and perfectly with Firefox 3.6 and then wreck to pieces on IE6. I will then show this to my IT department at school and see if they can change their ways.

I can't really think of much to do besides use html5 and css3 because I've never really tried breaking IE6, I am usually trying to fix it.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.filemaw.com/[/url]
Works in any browser but IE.

[X'Trapolis]

[QUOTE=Qombat;25451914][url]http://www.filemaw.com/[/url]
Works in any browser but IE.[/QUOTE]

Well done on alienating the majority of your visitors.

[Qombat]

[QUOTE=X'Trapolis;25451950]Well done on alienating the majority of your visitors.[/QUOTE]

The way it displays, most would leave anyway. The Trident renderer is just so fucking terrible.

[Erp]

[QUOTE=Qombat;25451914][url]http://www.filemaw.com/[/url]
Works in any browser but IE.[/QUOTE]I was hoping it would just break instead of redirecting to Chrome's site.

[X'Trapolis]

[QUOTE=Qombat;25451978]The way it displays, most would leave anyway. The Trident renderer is just so fucking terrible.[/QUOTE]

Well you suck, because IE9 is actually decent.

[jaybuz]

redirecting is better.

[Qombat]

[QUOTE=X'Trapolis;25452060]Well you suck, because IE9 is actually decent.[/QUOTE]

I could make it less than IE 9, I guess.

[editline]17th October 2010[/editline]

[QUOTE=Erp;25451983]I was hoping it would just break instead of redirecting to Chrome's site.[/QUOTE]

I could mockup a broken page if you'd like.

[jaybuz]

[QUOTE=Qombat;25452110]I could make it less than IE 9, I guess.

[editline]17th October 2010[/editline]

I could mockup a broken page if you'd like.[/QUOTE]

You could always link IE to a shit CSS file to break it... but then that's not really IE being shit.

[editline]17th October 2010[/editline]

cas has a good point to be honest though. Just use floats and IE is bound to fuck it up somewhere

[Erp]

[QUOTE=Qombat;25452110]I could mockup a broken page if you'd like.[/QUOTE]That'd be really awesome.

[Qombat]

Redirection header disabled.
Try it now.

[Erp]

What the fuck Cloudapp...

10 uploads per day?

[jaybuz]

Doesn't look to bad.

[Qombat]

You're kidding me right?

[editline]17th October 2010[/editline]

Look at in Chrome, then tell me that.

[jaybuz]

No

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/386727/ScrnCap/IE-8-Style.png[/img]

[Erp]

That's not IE6 Jaybuz :raise:

[jaybuz]

Ah ok, just IE 6.

Let me see