Web Do's & Don'ts » IE

Don’t use HTTP based resources on a HTTPS page

Siniša — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:35:27 +0000

Internet Explorer interrupts the download and displays a confirmation dialog whenever it detects the use of mixed content on a secure page.

In IE 7 and ealier, this dialog would cause annoyance to users but generally didn’t cause any other significant problems because most users would click on the Yes button and allow non-secure content to be downloaded. However, the wording in the IE 8 version of this dialog has changed and to download the content a user would now have to click on the No button.

Don’t use protocol relative paths to CSS files

Siniša — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:53:03 +0000

Internet Explorer 7 & 8 will download stylesheets twice if the http(s) protocol is missing.

Add display:inline to floated elements

Siniša — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:38:42 +0000

You can easily avoid IE double float-margin bug and IE text indent bug, simply by adding display:inline to your floated elements.

Use IE Conditional Comments

Bojan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:24:36 +0000

Conditional comments apply only to Internet Explorer. They give information that only IE will use which makes them perfect for, say, IE-specific CSS.