Good!

flash tekkie,

Yes, I was very glad about that decision!

Good news is Microsoft is ending expressions in Internet Explorer as announced on Thursday earlier this week.

A very nice move towards the standard-compliant browser.

This article is great. It help me with the expression problem. Thanks, Robert.

Best regards,
Inair

Yes, we’ll see what happens with that.

As suggested in the post:

…as a suggestion included in a file named maxWidthFixForIE6.js

I also recommend reading up on JavaScript best practices, for instance in Unobtrusive JavaScript, since it’s a vital tool in developing web interfaces.

I’m trying to implement this, but, well, I have no idea where to put the code…! I’m a complete javascript newbie. Do I put this in the CSS? Do I make it it’s own js file and then call it from my header? Sorry for being clueless, but I would greatly appreciate a quick nudge in the right direction.

Cheers –

Thank you!

Christophe,

Ah, good connection. Thanks!

Sure inspiration counts. Besides: inspiration is so easy to turn into something completely different

Thanks for the chat.

Well, inspiration counts too!

I went through and tested a few layout-solutions with Dean’s script, a couple of years ago. I ended up neither pro nor con, but it seemed I had to tailor my CSS a bit for the IE7 script to make the most out of it.

I ended up not using Dean’s work for anything but inspiration.

I see where you’re coming from, and it’s a pretty complex situation. But in that case, how about Dean Edward’s IE 7 script?

thanks for the response.

Yes, most settle for what I call “lagging fixes”, where well-written Javascript with the right set of conditions is superior to IE-expressions.
CSS is (supposed to be) handled pretty instant (in-sync) though, and that’s why I ended up writing my own, conditional, IE-expressions since I wanted to emulate proper CSS-handling - making it appear as if IE6 supports the relevant CSS.
Besides, since we’re dealing with an obsolete browser-version, I prefer to waste some of its resources instead of mine.

I’m not proficient enough in Javascript to write anything better at the moment, and what I’ve found across the web doesn’t seem to work more seamless or light on resources. Always open for suggestions though.

In-sync approach is a bit different, and I’d say fairly uncommon. But, at first thought, I don’t see why JavaScript couldn’t met the same demands with the proper events applied.

It gives you a more granular control, and hopefully just the possibility to have better performance by removing any constant but superfluos chance check.

However, I haven’t seen any good Javascript alternatives that can outperform the more complete (tailor-made) IE-expressions mainly used to “fix” IE6′ lack of CSS support, and I’m not sure what a good Javascript alternative should look like if it should perform the same task(s).

The “in-sync” performance is mainly what I’m after, since I use IE-expressions to emulate regular CSS support. Do you care to elaborate on what Javascript alternatives we have that performs the same tasks with less use of resources?

Funny coincidence! Anyway, I’m glad to hear that it helped!