Can designers now ignore what a site looks like in IE6?
Can someone explain to me why a designer thinks that he can just ignore what a website looks like in Internet Explorer? Hey - if you want to boycott IE on your personal site, more power to you. But the reality is that IE6 exists and it doesn't support PNGs and a bunch of other stuff that would be helpful.
It has always been a challenge to design for multiple browsers, especially if you have let go of evil table layouts. With the addition of IE7, we have some additional challenges. But the reality is that IE6 will be around for a while. Can we expect all of our clients and their site’s viewers to upgrade or buy a mac or switch to Firefox? I think not – I still have clients use AOL and still have no idea that there is a web outside of AOL.
Seriously – how can a site that looks like this in IE6 end up on cssmania…
Oh – and another thing… can we ignore file size in order to use pretty PNGs? The header graphic alone is 374k! I actually had to wait for this site to load – and I have a 3500k connection.
Internet Explorer 6 screenshot
Firefox pretty screenshot
we will reconsider the screenshot! Anyhow, IE7 at least works for us.
No, suddenly, we still can’t ignore ie6. There are still around 70% of ie6 in a full count of ie’s.
And I think designers should be very carefull even to make thier own websites ignoring ie6, at least without visible explanation to visitors, because they have a big opportunity to loose most of future clients.
Hey, being the first (well known) site to ignore ie6′d be good publicity, right?
Mostly I find it funny that it works in firefox & opera, but not old(6) IE – it’s nice for browsers I like to not be broken by sites working around IE’s quirks
– imma
Unfortunately, this is (maybe) just the first to not warn the viewer that the site is not optimized for IE6. Plenty of sites “ignore” Internet Explorer, just not to the extent that this site has.
There are ways to have this site work in Internet Explorer. The use of 375k PNGs for the entire design, I think, is a waste.
(BTW – the homepage and the CSS do not validate even though the handy links are in the footer)
No, cssmania has more and more taken on sites that are not well designs or coded. I guess they are having trouble finding well made sites to publish.
Also – A shit band with a shit name deserves a shit site. Might have something to do with it.
Oh my lord it drives me crazy. I constantly forget that IE can’t render things correctly, like PNG images.
Usually if it’s not too bad I don’t bother to fix it, but if it’s something like… well, it jumping to the bottom of the page or something I’ll try to fix it. But sometimes, after fussing with trying to get IE to look decent I just give up.
yeah, it does look bad..
well, i dont think we can ignore IE6.. i’m still using it. that made 1 user/visitor to your site..
well, can’t we just design it with no flaws ? .. making it both usable in IE6 and IE7…
what the hell is IE?
I don’t have IE6 anymore so I can’t really check anything. I just gotta hope it works.
To Jenny, if you are using winXP you may want to un-install IE7 from time to time to test out any websites you’ve designed. All the sites ive worked on since IE7 have all looked terrible in IE6. I do find IE7 one of the easier sites to layout using pure CSS but IE6, FF and Opera all work similarly in comparison to IE7 so a few small changes will open up your site to around 40-50% of the nets users.
Blindly ignoring visitors to your site due to not testing is just a straight up bad idea.