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mmastrac on Jan 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft decides IE 10 has had its fun: Terminati...

For those of us who cut our teeth on IE6, this was pretty much par for the course.

Check out Dean Edwards IE7 JS script - this was key to making IE6 behave like a modern browser: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ie7-js/

Edit: better way to view: https://github.com/Integralist/Dean-Edwards--IE-7-and-8-and-...

arayh on Jan 29, 2019 [–]

Ah yes, the good ol' PNG transparency hack is included in there. The bitter-sweet memories of web development in the 90s. Too bad the only working hack for fixing PNG gamma was to remove the gamma chunk from the image file itself.

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