Re: IE6 vs. octave.org

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John W. Eaton <address@hidden> [2007-01-05 01:24]:

> I happened to view the front page of octave.org with IE6 and found the
> behavior shown in the attached screenshot.  Is there anyone who could
> debug this problem and find the necessary css magic so that the Octave
> web pages will display nicely in current versions of firefox, IE and
> also IE6?  Or should we just not care about this?  If it is hard to
> fix, then I guess I don't care, but if it is easy, then I think it
> would be nice to fix this.

IE <= 6 is broken as regards "position: fixed" in CSS.  Something along
these lines should fix the "problem":

    http://www.divinentd.com/experiments/emulating-position-fixed.html

> Note that I don't have easy access to IE6, so I probably won't be able to
> test the fix.

No, I am not able to test the fix neither (no access to IE here). Sorry.

-- 
Rafael