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Relive the ugly years of the Web with IE6ify bookmarklet
Today, just 12% of Internet surfers still use IE6 -- mostly thanks to China, South Korea and other Asian countries -- and its decline will surely continue until the aging, I-laugh-at-your-standards browser dies a painful and ignoble death.
But, just like the bawdy and animated phosphorescence of Geocities, the misaligned madness of IE6 will always have a special place in our hearts. For most Dot-com Bubble developers, off-by-one-pixel CSS borders and disgustingly convoluted hacks to make IE6 and Firefox look alike were a way of life.
That's why one enterprising developer has created IE6ify, a bookmarklet that processes your current page with the IE6 rendering algorithm -- or its best approximation, anyway. Drop it onto your bookmark bar, head over to your favorite site, and hit the button. Marvel as IE6ify breaks and contorts innocent HTML and CSS until it screams. You might have to hit the button a few times to make the changes more noticeable.
Don't try it on Download Squad, though. Our layout is so awesome -- so standard -- that the bookmarklet hardly does a thing!
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Subscribe to commentsAemonyMar 17th 2011 8:41AM
Click it enough and even your so "standard" layout will be brought down and punished for what it is! :D
The formula seems to be based on a random number so I guess the more elements you have on your page the less chance a big screw up will happen within the first uses.
SpeedGunMar 17th 2011 12:43PM
It doesn't technically emulate the IE6 engine. All it does is randomize font sizes, padding, and width.
RahabibMar 17th 2011 5:16PM
ah... and here I was thinking it was a way to test IE6 compatibility. its completely random.
sdfsfsdfsdfMar 18th 2011 4:09AM
To be honest this is very stupid.
1. When IE6 was the dominating browser the reason was not evil Microsoft. The reason was that all other browsers were even worse (Netscape, anyone?). The IE domination was deserved (at the time).
2. At the time when IE6 was big, Internet pages were programmed for IE6, so basically there was a "standard". Pages did not look bad. It makes no sense to let IE6 render today's pages, and then think that that is a revelatory experience.
3. The dotcom bubble burst years before Firefox came.
Just to make this clear: Of course standard compliance is a good thing, but mainly for developers, not for end users or aesthetics.
And BTW: I am a fanatic FF user nowadays.