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Anykind of IE6 compatibility forcer/fixer for CSS?

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:30 pm
by DaveTheAve
I really thought Jquery had a plugin that forced IE to render CSS properly. I can't seem to be able to find it; if it exists tell me though.

Etherway, I need a way to force IE 6 to render CSS properly or help identify how to modify my CSS to make it IE6 complient. If not, anything I can use/read that will help me?

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:42 pm
by RobertGonzalez
There are immeasurable sites on the internet that talk about hacking fully standard compliant markup and CSS so that it works with that piece of crap Internet Explorer browser. Too many, in fact, to list here. I would recommend a search.

And jQuery is not ever going to make CSS render properly. It is a javascript library not God.

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:46 pm
by DaveTheAve
Alright don't everyone start flamming me; Everah, I know you weren't and I'm not not addressing you. I realize that the question was rather dumb, but I really thought Jquery had that plugin.

I guess i'm off to research CSS Hacks.

P.S. It WOULD be cool if someone created a CSS to IE6CSS converter.... Many ppl would pay for one. :wink:

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:01 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Thing break badly in IE7 as well. Not as bad as 6, but bad all the same. I am at a point right now where unless it is critical to business that the thing render properly in all browsers, I don't bother with it.

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:34 pm
by Kieran Huggins
@Dave: You're not actually that far off, believe it or not.

jQuery builds on Dean Edwards' cssQuery() function, and also uses his packer for source code compression.

Dean's most famous project is IE7 (named before the browser as planned, let alone released). The function of IE7 was/is to hack IE5/6 into CSS compatibility by way of Javascript. It's quite good, and sounds like what you're looking for.

So IE7 (project, not browser) was the catalyst that drove the development of the previously mentioned two functions, the first of which formed the base of jQuery.

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:10 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Dude, those are neat. You are a wealth of information Kieran.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:23 am
by DaveTheAve
IE7 looks promising but I can't find any documentation for cssQuery for Jquery... I'll keep looking.

Thanks!... and thanks for saving me from looking like a.... stupid person.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:10 am
by Kieran Huggins
Glad you both like it so much!

cssQuery was taken apart and built into jQuery. It essentially powers jQuery's "find by CSS selector" abilities.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:20 am
by Luke
I remember I was planning on trying to write something like this only to find IE7. (It's a good thing too, because my version would have been sort of pathetic LOL )

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:00 pm
by Kieran Huggins
That's exactly how I found it... and mine was even more pathetic than you feared yours would have been had it existed.

You heard me.

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:12 pm
by s.dot
Kieran Huggins wrote:That's exactly how I found it... and mine was even more pathetic than you feared yours would have been had it existed.

You heard me.
You can't possibly compare a solid patheticness to a non-existing patheticness no matter how pathetic the patheticness he feared was comparable to said patheticness!

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:17 pm
by Luke
hmm... now I'm going to forget I came in here.


/me tiptoes out of this thread

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:25 pm
by Kieran Huggins
It has to do with Heisenberg's lesser known "theoretical patheticity principle". I'd explain if I could, but the very explanation would violate the laws of pathetidynamicism.

:?

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:54 pm
by RobertGonzalez
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:59 am
by DaveTheAve
How exactly would I use the built-in cssQuery then? Anychance at it being as simple as pointing it to an already coded css file?