Posts Tagged "IE"
Debuging CSS in IE
Almost everyone in web development industry agrees that Internet Explorers are the most hated web browsers, mainly because:
- IE (specially IE6) doesn’t really support the css standards.
- Most of the debugging tools available in Firefox are not available in IE.
The main issue with IE is that testing under IE CANNOT be avoided by developers, because there are still many people using IE. At this point:
- Internet Explorer 7.0 – 31.43%
- Internet Explorer 6.0 – 25.12%
- Internet Explorer 8.0 – 0.87%
Of users are using different versions of IE. IE8 has a much better support for CSS standards but as you can see there are still not many people using it. Many giant websites still support IE6 because many users have still not upgraded their IE to the latest versions. To Debug CSS under IE Firebug has implemented another version of its Firefox plug-in, which is called Firebug lite, but unfortunately its not useful at all! I have recently discovered a tool call Internet Explorer developers tool-bar. Its created by Microsoft and it has many functionalities that FireBug has. You can easily change CSS values with this tool. I have installed it on IE6, IE7 and IE8 and its working perfectly fine.
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