This is a very accurate description of what web design is. After working an entire day and half the night on a site, just when I started uploading it on the server, I did a final check of the design in IE6. I almost fainted. The png transparency fix wasn’t working properly, my divs were all over the place, what can I say, a complete mess.
I got to do a lot of research on the web to find the proper hacks for IE in order for my design to work, and I thought I would post the links here, maybe it will help someone else as well.
First of all, the only fix for my transparent backgrounds was actually a quite simple one (after trying a few) so my thanks go to TwinHelix designs.
Then I found an easy way to make a few changes to my css, making them visible for IE alone, while the other browsers ignoring them. “Any property that you wish only IE to see add an underscore before the first letter. This is ignored by all browsers except IE.” Excellent.
The last step was actually submitting the site design to an online tool that makes screenshots of the site to see how it looks on different browsers in different OS. That helped me spot an Opera/ Safari issue that I fixed. Some of the screeshots were quite strange (one was reporting a virus), but most of them were ok. You can test the site yourself and maybe give me a feedback if it works properly.
Conclusion? I hate IE6. Really.
