[Shenlug] Web page design: Fixed position and IE

[Ricky Nelson]

This might help your browser stats question:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

-Ricky

-----Original Message-----
From: shenlug-bounces at calypso.tux.org
[mailto:shenlug-bounces at calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Harvey Ussery
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 6:29 PM
To: shenlug at calypso.tux.org
Subject: [Shenlug] Web page design: Fixed position and IE

Starting on a big re-do of my website. Have found a layout possibility 
that could well solve a number of design problems for me, but it depends

on fixed positioning: Two columns, the wider one on the right wi the 
main content, the left one wi vertical navigation bar. Since the col on 
the right will be much, much longer than the navbar on the left, I use 
fixed positioning to fix the navbar in place on the screen as user 
scrolls down thru the content in right col.

Beautiful. I like. Only problem is that according to a text I'm using, 
IE 6 and below do not support fixed positioning, so on those browsers my

design wd come across as pretty dumb. Supposedly the only fix requires 
Java, and I'm really not ready for that learning curve, really need to 
get this update finished w/out a lot of delay.

Any of you web designers know of a workaround?

What is the current ver of IE, and what percentage of users are likely 
still using 6 and below, anybody know?

Thanks.

~Harvey

PS:  I'm astounded--almost every design bug the author of this book 
references is in IE, and comes about solely because M$ doesn't comply 
with accepted standards. Are there any other reasons to hate M$?
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