Emulating I. E.6

Zoltan Boszormenyi zboszor at freemail.hu
Mon Sep 11 11:38:16 UTC 2006


Jack Gates írta:
> On Sunday 10 September 2006 14:39, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>   
>> On Sunday 10 September 2006 13:36, Jack Gates wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 10 September 2006 08:00, Tim wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Easy to do:  Serve it XHTML to the full letter of the
>>>> specifications, and it can't/won't display it.
>>>>
>>>> Or, for a cheap trick, specify Wingdings as the font face. 
>>>> MSIE will display gibberish, other systems will use a default
>>>> font (if they don't have Windings).  Those systems that display
>>>> proper text are the ones that are working properly, by the way.
>>>>         
>>> If anyone has Windows and IE handy go check out my site
>>> http://www.jlgates.com I looked at it on my wife's box.  It is
>>> nothing but gibberish except for one line (by design).
>>>       
>> Jack:
>> While it works as intended in Mozilla, both Konqueror and Opera get
>> gibberish. -- cmg
>>     
>
> Still have the font-family set to Wingdings and the site shows up in a 
> proper font in Firefox, Konqueror and Opera.  The only browser that 
> shows an unreadable page is IE.  If any one goes to the site 
> http://www.jlgates.com with any browser other than IE and can't read 
> the page let me know what browser.  I am probably going to write the 
> pages in proper XHTML and change the font-family back to something 
> normal, but that probably won't happen any time soon.
>
>   

Sorry to disappoint you but on a Windows2000 with IE6
(all erratas installed) your page is completely readable. :-)
Both IE6 and Firefox are installed, default browser is Firefox.




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