Home. Moq - Google Code. Essentials of CSS Hacking For Internet Explorer. The summary of our latest project client-side development brought to conclusion that there’re are really just a few essential Internet Explorer hacks. By careful structure planning, I managed to stripe down all hackery to a much less additional rules. Since they are promising IE7 some time soon, more and more I think about secure CSS hacking. We surely don’t want our sites to be a mess in IE7 for it’s quite possibly half-repaired CSS support. Conditional Comments The alpha and the omega of IE hacking are IE’s conditional comments. They are IE-only feature and they’re not supported by any other browser. The typical usage is as follows: <! Untill now I used to write something like above, which applies to all versions of Internet Explorer, i.e. 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0, but since the latest announcements, I started applying the following condition: <!
Which means: “if this is Internet Explorer less than or equal to version 6, do something”. Backslash hack for IE 5.x broken box model Overflow problems. Install multiple versions of IE on your PC | TredoSoft. Ever wanted to test your website in various versions of Internet Explorer? It is possible to run Internet Explorer in standalone mode without having to over-write previous versions thanks to Joe Maddalone who came up with a way of achieving that in November 2003.
Basically, Internet Explorer is run by exploiting a known workaround to DLL hell - which was introduced in Windows 2000 and later versions - called DLL redirection. Manfred Staudinger perfected the standalone versions by adding IE version numbers to the title bar of the standalone browser window. Moreover, by removing the "IE" key in the registry subkey [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Version Vector] Internet Explore defaulted to respecting conditional comments based on the version number prebuilt in the program. It is not difficult to follow the instructions and get any version of IE running in standalone along side other versions. So I made an installer which contains IE3 IE4.01 IE5 IE5.5 and IE6 Important Notes: