IE 6 hacks, tips and blocker tutorials

I collected a number of IE hacks tutorials over the years. Here is the list which you can find great tips for your websites.

IE6 hacks and tips
1. 10 Fixes That Solve IE6 Problems
2. Obituary For IE6
3. Feed IE 6 with a basic stylesheet
4. IE CSS Bugs That’ll Get You Every Time
5. Defensive coding and CSS: Preventing the most common bugs
6. Closing the gap between list items in IE
7. 5 Easy Ways to Tackle IE6’s Transparency Issues
8. Don't kick your visitors's IE 6 and below out of your css layout
9. Let Internet Explorer 6 Behave Like Internet Explorer 7

IE6 Blocker scripts.
One way is to educate your audience by suggesting to a better browsers.

1. IE 6 Blocker Script
2. A simple IE6 upgrade script

Demo for above script are here. You have to use IE6 to see the effects though.
IE 6 Blocker Script Demo
A simple IE6 upgrade script Demo

Tools
1. Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image
2. IE6 standalone
3. IE tester
4. netrenderer

If you know more, please add them to the comment.
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Gracefully Degradable jquery Drop-Down-Menu

There are many jquery menus. However I found that some are not gracefully degradable and some don't work in IE6 etc.

I found good one with mootools. Then I wanted to change it to jquery for other reasons.

I found two jquery menus for my purpose. Both of them works without javascript enabled and in IE6.

http://www.kriesi.at/archives/create-a-multilevel-dropdown-menu-with-css-and-improve-it-via-jquery
and
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/

I decided to use the first one since it does not need other js as the second one and it serves my purpose.

This menu does not look fancy, because of color, but I used this for some websites. www.okadadesign.no www.designvalg.no and other websites.
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