Browsers

Since we’ve been gone…

by ross on May.17, 2011, under IE6, Linux

So there are some exciting times ahead it seems in the tech world… Google have just announced their [small] range of Chromebooks which on top of their rather good looks have an extremely attractive subscription package. We’re now on Internet Explorer 9 – and Microsoft are evening helping us to remove the curse that is Internet Explorer 6…

In the office though we’re still steaming along nicely. The only real difference since our last post is the fact we’re running a couple of Ubuntu machines. And despite the minor irritants so far so good.

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Static background in Internet Explorer 6

by ross on Jan.13, 2010, under Browsers, FeaturedContent, IE6

I just thought I’d quickly share a little tidbit of information I recently uncovered.

Normally when you want a static (ie. non scrolling) background image you would use background-attachment: fixed somewhere in your code, either in the tag on more common these days in your style.css file.

However in yet another quirk of the massively out dated IE6 (surely Microsoft should realise it’s day has passed and pull the plug? Even their own Windows 7 shop doesn’t work properly in IE6!) this ONLY works if placed in the <body> tag and will not no matter what you try ever work if in your seperate CSS file.

Feel free to check it out on www.rentaballoonrace.com which is written in ASP.NET.