Well it does seem to be an IE 6 bug, So to get an idea of where things stand with my blog concerning OS and Browsers used I checked stats so far.
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So even though Firefox has a clear lead on usage IE6 is still the leading MS browser…
So I guess I better either spend some time playing with the CSS, find a new theme, or make a new one myself…
Going to have to think about that one, I really hate messing up CSS, just to make IE happy..
Let me know what you think..
June 29th, 2007 at 10:51 am
As I have to deal with these things in my “real” life every day, I can only confirm that IE6 is still too wide-spread to be ignored. And as IE7 has finally become a bit better at interpreting CSS correctly and Firefox is close to perfect, it becomes more and more of a pain in the a** to include fixes for the IE6. But still, necessary evil …
One “dirty” trick I often use is to include stylesheet definitions that start with an underscore, like e.g. “_height:100px;”. These will still be interpreted by IE6 (not sure about IE7 atm), but will be ignored by Firefox etc. Sometimes that helps in setting two different things at once, as in “height:50px;_height: 100px;” the Firefox will use the 50px, while for IE the 100px overrides the first setting.
I hope this helps a bit. If you have further questions, feel free to ask.
June 29th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Thanks again Timothy, IE7 seems to render pages pretty good, a lot better than IE6, in any case. Am looking at possibly changing my theme, but another one I looked at had similar sidebar float problems in IE6. So still thinking about how i want to proceed, i have done WP themes before, Tao of DesertWolf, but it has been a while. Right now the lack of time is the main thing keeping me from doing a new theme.