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intranation on April 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Defending IE6

Or... you could just use a Javascript framework that takes care of that abstraction for you. This is seriously not a hard problem.

moe on April 1, 2009 [–]

Well, frameworks go a long way but they don't help with the pains in the CSS area. When supporting IE6 you're generally limiting yourself to the capabilities of that browser. And for any non-trivial site you will run into hard problems regularly, unless you're leaving HTML behind entirely (ExtJS, Flash).

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