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So my co-worker at work had an issue with getting a link to be clickable in IE (any version).  The anchor had these styles:

a { display: block;
height:80px;
left:45px;
position:absolute;
top:140px;
width:500px;
z-index:100; }

It was working fine in FireFox but not in IE (which happens quite a lot at work).  I did some R&D (aka proceed to StackOverflow) and found this.  The solution was to add a background-image that did not exist:

background:url(/img.png) no-repeat;

That worked.  I wonder why IE8 never bothered fixing this. Maybe IE9 will, but that’s wishful thinking with IE.

Web developers have waited for what seems like ages for this month to come along. Internet Explorer remains ahead of the rest of the competition, but since month after month it continues to lose ground to all other browsers, Firefox has now finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft’s browser. Firefox’s steady gain continues, Safari remains in a nonthreatening third place, Chrome is happily carving out a small niche for itself, and poor Opera can’t seem to budge from fifth place. In October, all browsers except for IE and Opera showed positive growth.

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So today Microsoft released IE8. This is good news for all those IE users (which is only about half the users online). Unfortunately many people are still using IE6. I understand some companies require it but IE 8 is out now and I’m almost positive your software can work on IE 7. If the software you are using doesn’t work on IE7, then the you should question those in charge of providing the software.

As a web developer, accommodating IE6 is really annoying and at times painful. We still do this for our clients sine almost 25% of the users worldwide are using IE6. This was understandable but by now many of them should upgrade to at least IE7. So if your company is still using IE6, please for the sake of all the web designers and developers around the world, put it to rest!

As a web developer, I hate it when we have to make our sites compatible with IE6.  I develop with FF and then test in Safari/Chrome/Opera.  When it comes to IE, I have to test in both IE6 and IE7, becuase 20% of the users on the internet feel that IE6 is the best browser or they fail to upgrade or they are on a company PC which and too lazy to upgrade.

I really can’t take this anymore.  There needs to be a universal appeal from all web developers worldwide to stop developing for IE6.  In fact we should make all our sites not accesible in IE6 and force everyone to upgrade to IE7 or switch to FF.