Today I found out that if you don't want to do any sort of modifications to adjust your site for IE8, you don't have to do that. It isn't ideal situation of course, but there definitely could be circumstances where this could be necessary; for instance, web developer got fired.

The following tag will make this happen:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

It will display standards DOCTYPEs in IE7 Standards mode and quirks DOCTYPEs in Quirks mode.

More info about this is available on MSDN website.

I just learnt that SourceForge.net is using my killie6 plug-in on their website, that is great news :)

The plug-in is freely available on SF.net.

I noticed that SourceForge engineers figured out some layout things that I hadn't achieved yet, I'll probably end up reusing that code and updating main repo.

When I created a plug-in killie6, not many supported me. Some declared my methods are deceptive and unethical. Yes, I agree, Microsoft's armor icon could be quite radical, but my plug-in could be restyled to not be deceptive.

My project was thus put to temporary sleep for a while. It was used on a number of smaller sites that did not care about ie6 users.

Everyone keeps talking about Chrome these days and how great it is. I checked it out and I loved it too. But why don't developers keep talking about Internet Explorer 6? USA Today the other day had a huge article on Internet Explorer 8. But why didn't they try to explain to readers why IE6 should be abandoned? That is what is frustrating.

And I am convinced I am not alone wondering about when we (developers) will stop creating separate stylesheets for IE6 and forget it as a nightmare.

A whlie ago I posted how to feed specific .css file to Internet Explorer 8 only. That was during IE8 RC1. Now it's IE8 Beta 2. Microsoft finally released Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit. Below another official way to feed css to IE8 only:

<!--[if gte IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css.css" /><![endif]-->

This code snippet will force your ie6 clients to understand min-width, pretty cool hack.

element.style{
_width:expression(((document.compatMode && document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat') ? document.documentElement.clientWidth : document.body.clientWidth) < 660 ? "660px" : "auto");
}

Note that I prepend '_' before 'width', that ensures that only ie6 will bother to try to interpret that command, other normal browsers will ignore that.

Yet another IE fork. How could it be any different? For those who're getting ready, the code below will work (at least on RC1)

<!--[if IE 8.000]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css.css" /><![endif]-->