Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS

Personally I believe IE6 should have been dead already, but if you insist on serving for it, here is a good solution.

How do you answer the Internet Explorer 6 question?

  1. Design for better browsers, then design alternative solutions to handle IE6 bugs?
  2. Write a remedial IE6 stylesheet to address layout issues?
  3. Use JavaScript to bootstrap CSS support in IE6?
  4. Make your site look exactly the same in IE6 as in any other browser?
  5. Develop to better browsers and spend no development time or testing for IE6?
  6. Block IE6 users from seeing your site's styles?

As Jeremy wrote last year.

All of these different methods for dealing with IE6 demonstrate that there's no one single answer that works for everyone. This isn't a binary issue. There is no Boolean answer. Instead, there's a sliding scale of support:

May 30, 2009

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