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Re: IE6 Compatibility Help

mastermine — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:59:06 GMT

Thanks both of you it worked perfectly. :)

James Weston

Re: IE6 Compatibility Help

Sven Groot — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:03:36 GMT

Yep, XML prolog is the problem here. In quirks mode in IE, absolute font sizes (e.g. small, medium) render bigger than they're supposed to.

Remove the XML prolog, IE6 switches to standards mode, your issues should be gone.

Re: IE6 Compatibility Help

AndyC — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:23:48 GMT

mastermine wrote:

http://testing.meamod.com/darlo/home/

That's got an XML prolog before the doctype, so IE6 will render it in Quirks mode.

Re: IE6 Compatibility Help

mastermine — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:17:39 GMT

The flash fix worked perfectly thanks very much.

~~and i am still working on the font fix i will post back with more info soon~~

Ok I have looked in to the font problem is still a mystery because

both of the following pages use the same class for the text however the look completely different in ie6

http://testing.meamod.com/darlo/home/
http://testing.meamod.com/darlo/about/

Re: IE6 Compatibility Help

JChung2006 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:40:54 GMT

Re: font size, it looks like the way IE6 renders medium Arial is different than the way IE7 and the other browsers render medium Arial. I tested this by comparing the text on your page with the text on a page with just this:

<div style="font: medium Arial, sans-serif">Test.</div>

As for the Flash IE6 width issue, your "logo" class has its CSS margin-left property set to 80px. Removing that gets rid of the extra whitespace on IE6.