• June 30th, 2008
• Posted by TheHahn
• Boise Office
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In the infinite hell that is developing for Internet Explorer 6, I have gotten rather good at creating CSS that doesn’t use browser specific code (holly hack, asterisk, conditional logic, !important, child nodes, etc). There are a few exceptions in the instance of actual bugs, not just loose interpretations of the W3C standards.

PNGs in IE6. [The Fix]
I suppose I need not only apply the fix to IE6, since Firefox won’t break, but I think the fewer superfluous attributes applied to an element, the better.
* { behavior: url(iepngfix.htc); }
I die a little inside every time I have to add a hack like that.

Disappearing Background Images
Doesn’t appear consistently, but consistently annoys. I use background images for list item bullets. In IE6 the background images will appear until the page loads, then disappear save the first bullet (sometimes). If you can scroll the window enough to move the bu