What are the problems that you have with ie < 7 ?

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It gives an ILLEGAL OPERATION and won't open my site at all. I never use IE except if I am on a public computer so I never know when I've changed something that is not working with IE.

The best solution is to cure whatever throws the error in IE 6 ;)

You could use [url=http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512.aspx]conditional statements[/url] to redirect IE6 to another skin ... not sure how successful that one would be.

You should also be able to detect if the browser is IE6 on the server-side and just switch skins .... I've never bothered trying that either, so I don't now how successful that would be either.

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Yes and I usually try to but I don't always have time to do that and instead of my site being inaccessible I switch to a different skin to see if it helps.

Right now my Amazon widget is not valid and I'm not sure how to fix it.

I just need a way to keep my site accessible until I have time to figure out what's making IE balk. other than it just being a piece of crap browser LOL

Server side as in my control panel, exclusive of my b2 install or somewhere in the b2 admin?

Believe me when I say that IE6 gives me a daily reason to go "WTF? does it REALLY do that?" ( today was the fact that it doesn't understand that grey == gray! )

By server-side I mean you could probably add something to conf/hacks.php that does a swift browser check and if it's ie6 just sets $skin = 'summat a mentally challenged amoeba could understand' .... there may or may not be something in $Hit that can do this for you, I've never had a need to check.

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Okay thanks! I will see if I can figure something out. I ran through the HTML validator last night and cleaned up some stuff but it's still not working.

Okay I can't figure out where to place this conditional statement and exactly what it needs to be. I got this far with the code but it's obviously incomplete and which file does it go into and where?? I just want them to see the basic skin.

<script language="JavaScript">

var browser = "";

//detecting IE
if (navigator.appName =="Microsoft Internet Explorer" && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera") < 0){browser = "IE"}

</script>