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[Kristina Anderson]

Interesting discussion.  We are now working on a heavily CSS'd site and 
already finding some weirdness in IE6 behavior with our new dynamic 
menu.

I remember back when the incompatibilities were very bad already, and 
IE and Netscape kept thinking that adding new incompatible features 
would cause the other product to become extinct overnight...haha.  What 
it really caused was 10,000 different browser detection routines and an 
unwillingness on the part of developers to go anywhere that might not 
be universally supported.

Is there anything out there now that's a good comprehensive "where not 
to go with client side dev" overview, like we used to have?

-- Kristina

> John Campbell wrote:
> > How do most people even do IE 6 testing?  As far as I can tell, 
there
> > is no legal means to test IE6 on a mac or linux.
> 
> Under windows I've had good luck with MultipleIEs [1], for Linux 
there 
> is IEs4 Linux [2].
> 
> The easiest route is probably to keep a Windows machine around 
running 
> IE7, IE6 (via MultipleIEs), Firefox, Safari and Opera.  You'll still 
run 
> into issues that only raise their heads in older versions, but you'll 
> have the major bases covered.
> 
> Dan
> 
> [1] http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
> [2] http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
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