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Wednesday, March 27th, 2002 at 12:05 PM | 5 commentsIE 6 garners one-third of browser market. OK, I admit it. I have IE6, but only because I got a new computer and that’s what was loaded on it. I need to have IE 5.5 for testing purposes and of course, I can’t install it. [Link Kristine]
My top three annoyances with IE6:
- no automatic ability to maximize all windows. I downloaded a little program that was supposed to address this, but it doesn’t work.
no ability to state preference of View > Status Bar being turned on at all times. Thanks, Dan! Solution below.- centers text by default if the code doesn’t specifically left align - unfortunately, W3 specs say IE6 is right. This is one area where browsers can go right ahead and ignore the rule *g*.
Anyone figure out how to have IE5.5 and IE 6 loaded on the same machine? <edit>Ugh, it requires having two OSes on the same machine. Fugettaboudit</edit>
<edit> Here’s how to permanently turn on View > Status Bar:
- With (only one) IE open, click View and select: Status Bar
- Hold down the Ctrl key and click the close button (upper right)
- Open Windows Explorer, click View and select: Status Bar
- Click Tools > Folder Options > View tab
- Click the “Apply to all folders” button
Works like a charm.</edit>
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5 comments
The status bar visibility issue is a bug. There’s a workaround… it’s rather strange, but it works.
1) With (only one) IE open, click View and select: Status Bar.
2) Hold down the Ctrl key and click the close button (upper right).
3) Open Windows Explorer, click View and select: Status Bar
4) Click Tools > Folder Options > View tab
5) Click the “Apply to all folders” button.
Install second OS on your machine. That’s the only way to go.
And the text centering issue is due to sloppy coding. According to the W3C spec, IE6 is behaving exactly as it should. I blame Netscape, myself.
Wow… 30 seconds into checking things out for the first time and I find out how to keep my IE6 status bar on! You just won a new reader Meryl!
There is another option for browser testing different IE versions. The cost is about the same as an OS but it might be worth it: VMware. At work we have two machines using it. Our help desk has a machine with about 4 versions of Windows on it and it comes in handy several times a week - at least. My machine only has Win2K but keeps separate VMs for IE4, IE5, IE5.5 and IE6, along with NS4, NS6 and Opera. As I’m developing/upgrading various extranets to handle more CSS, this has come in very handy. A single user (or is it CPU?) license is just under US$300, but the felzability it affords can’t be beat. This is one of the slickest utilities I’ve seen in years.
Cheers
Silly wee thing but it was really bugging me.
Thanks again
David
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