By wwwmarty on

Is there any particular reason I can't select the text of comments on this site usingfIE6? Is that by design, or just a buggy stylesheet? I suspect the latter -- works fine in Firefox.

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sepeck commented

Um, I can see it just fine in IE6. I suspect you may want to take a look at troubleshooting your local system

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wwwmarty’s picture

wwwmarty commented

I just can't swipe over THIS TEXT RIGHT HERE with my mouse, to "select" it for a copy+paste operation.

Steven’s picture

Steven commented

It's a side effect of the many hacks required to make IE6 not barf on tableless CSS.

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wwwmarty’s picture

wwwmarty commented

Of course i have to use a "proper browser" like firefox, if i want to copy from the PHP snippets page, but browser snobbery aside, there is no excuse for not supporting the browser with 75% market share -- crappy as she may be in some respects.

That is, unless you aren't interested in gaining market share of your own, for Drupal. Which i suspect you actually are...

There are ways to make IE6 behave with tableless layouts, you just have to make a commitment to support IE6, and not be a snob about W3C standards. I write to that standard to support FF, and write around it for IE. It's a good living actually ;)

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ruthsarian commented

See http://drupal.org/node/44934.

Basically, the BASE tag is the root of your problem. The fix is to include an IE conditional comment.

<base href="http://drupal.org/"><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]-->