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IE6 PngFix in Javascript

Admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:36:02 +0000

As a web developer you will know just how much we all love hate Internet Explorer 6 – one of the most dreaded browsers and browser versions that still exists in the deep dark corners of the interwebs – and you will probably have figured out that it doesn’t play well with PNG images.

So here is how you can resolve this problem. It’s not as nice as an actual browser that can render PNG images natively, but it does work.

var arVersion = navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE")
var version = parseFloat(arVersion[1])
if ((version &gt;= 5.5) &amp;&amp; (document.body.filters))

{

for(var i=0; i&lt;document.images.length; i++)

{

var img = document.images[i]

var imgName = img.src.toUpperCase()

if (imgName.substring(imgName.length-3, imgName.length) == "PNG")

{

var imgID = (img.id) ? "id=’" + img.id + "’ " : ""

var imgClass = (img.className) ? "class=’" + img.className + "’ " : ""

var imgTitle = (img.title) ? "title=’" + img.title + "’ " : "title=’" + img.alt + "’ "

var imgStyle = "display:inline-block;" + img.style.cssText

if (img.align == "left") imgStyle = "float:left;" + imgStyle

if (img.align == "right") imgStyle = "float:right;" + imgStyle

if (img.parentElement.href) imgStyle = "cursor:hand;" + imgStyle

var strNewHTML = "<span " + imgID + imgClass + imgTitle

+ " style=\"" + "width:" + img.width + "px; height:" + img.height + "px;" + imgStyle + ";"

+ "filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader"

+ "(src=\’" + img.src + "\’, sizingMethod=’scale’);\"></span>"

img.outerHTML = strNewHTML

i = i-1

}

}

}

Force Download in PHP

Admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:00:30 +0000

This script works in all browsers, including Internet Explorer!

if (strstr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],"MSIE")) {

header("Pragma: public");

header("Expires: 0");

header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

header("Cache-Control: private",false);

header("Content-Type: application-download");

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($filename)."\";");

header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

header("Content-Length: ".@filesize($ab_file));

set_time_limit(0);

} else {

header("Content-type: application-download");

header("Content-Length: ".filesize($ab_file));

header("Content-Disposition attachment; filename=".$filename);

}

readfile($ab_file);

IE6 on Vista?

Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:30:02 +0000

I find myself constantly fighting the microsoft battle of making things work in their browsers (thanks guys).

On one of my machines I have Vista installed and needed to test a newly created site that apparently had some issues under Internet Explorer 6.

HOWEVER, to my horror IE6 was unable to run on Vista. Once again, thanks Microsoft for making life difficult for everyone out there!

After much grief, pain and agony with a million attempts to get it to run I stumbled upon a really great tool called IETester made by DebugBar.

Take a look at their site.
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Getting an internet connection under VirtualPC running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7

Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:20:21 +0000

Getting an internet connection under VirtualPC running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7

Open the ‘settings’ of the virtual machine and select Networking -> then change Adapter1 to “Shared networking (NAT)” and it will use your local machine’s network settings.