[thelist] Re:Windows XP / IE 6 and style sheets (Scott Brady)

Sun Jul 8 22:39:16 CDT 2001

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> Message: 26
> From: "Scott Brady" <evolt at scottbrady.net>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 17:26:46 -0600
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> Subject: [thelist] Windows XP / IE 6 and style sheets
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> I looked in the archives to see if this has been discussed yet and
couldn't
> find it.
>
> I installed Windows XP (Preview Release 1) today, which of course
installed
> IE 6 automatically.  Now, when I go to web-sites, the fonts seem to be all
> screwed up, as if the stylesheets aren't working.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this?  Disabling a stylesheet doesn't seem to be
an
> option, so I'm not sure where it would be.
>
> For what it's worth (it's a moot point, because Smart Tags won't be in the
> final version), Smart Tags were turned off by default for IE 6 / Windows
XP
> PR 1.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott
> -------------------------------------------------
> Scott Brady
> http://www.scottbrady.net/

If you are declaring a <!DOCTYPE HTML, IE6 is much more strict (e.g.,
unforgiving) than its predecessors. I had the same issue and ended up
removing the declarations.

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