Item163: Website/NatSkin is broken in IE6

There are two bug report for this issue. This one and Tasks.Item215. I merged them on this page and closed Tasks.Item215

Micheal emailed me, saying he's working on it...

-- CarloSchulz - 18 Nov 2008 - 17:48

Report from David Patterson

Yes, IE6 needs to be put behind us and not spoken of again but, Corporate IT is notoriously cautious (slow to update), we are targeted at the Corporate intranet, and IE6 is still to be encountered more often than we would like it to be (it is still our default browser (mind you, we've only recently updated to Lotus Notes 6.5.5 - in the real world, Notes is currently at 8.x I think)).

Is this worth fixing? Probably not. Just add a warning that it is not compatible with IE6 and that an update to IE7/FF/Opera etc. is strongly recommended.

David, do you have a screenshot to see what is broken? -- CarloSchulz - 13 Nov 2008 - 16:52

• screenshot of the website broken in IE6:
  

Outch - that is definetly broken! What a mess :-/ -- CarloSchulz - 13 Nov 2008 - 16:52

Report from Kenneth Lavrsen

Some of you web site guys have done a recent change to the skin on nextwiki.org without trying it in Internet Explorer.

The site is useless in IE right now.

You cannot see pages. You cannot login. Everything is total toast.

When do you guys set up a test site where you can try the changes before applying them to a live site?

And who of you have the responsibility to test the site in Internet Explorer which is still the most common browser on the Internet?

It does not look good at the moment when a corporate manager comes by to see if our project is a viable upgrade from TWiki.

-- KennethLavrsen - 18 Nov 2008 - 15:25

I've reopened this as there are still issues, see the grabs below.

-- DavidPatterson - 19 Nov 2008 - 12:05

• top of page showing odd broadcast message, pngs and logo:
  

• bottom of page showing forms and attachment table running into the side bar:
  

• the png thingy can't be solved as long as IE6 does not support transparent png which is not likely to change. So we would need to use gif or give a f*** about this png bug :-/

-- CarloSchulz - 19 Nov 2008 - 14:08

Simple solution: do not use transparent PNGs. And do not offer FamFamFamIcons - these will not work for most users.

Complex solution: add a bunch of javascript to let IE6 support transparent PNGs. See http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-transparent-png-in-ie6

-- ArthurClemens - 19 Nov 2008 - 14:35

A major improvement was made on foswiki.org since my report but the new logo in the top bar still looks awful in IE6. Can someone please fix quickly so we look good and pro.

-- KennethLavrsen - 21 Nov 2008 - 12:27

The support web also looks awful in IE6. The pngs are not shown transparent. Transparent GIFs would work.

-- KennethLavrsen - 21 Nov 2008 - 12:31

Looks fine to me (Windows 2000 IE6). Closed.

-- KwangErnLiew - 11 Dec 2008