Bugs

My step dad has today found a flaw in the shiny new website I developed for my parents villa. When he went to look at the site on his work laptop - which surprise surprise has internet explorer 6 on it - found that it looked slightly different to the image he had seen before. What is odd is just how different it looks; the navigation bar is vertical rather than horizontal and the pictures have squashed themselves as if they have forgotten how wide they should be.

As I don't have a copy of internet explorer - let along IE6 - I had no way of testing it to see just how wrong it was. His attempts to send me a print screen of the monstrosity resulted in a dozen or so emails back and forth trying to get the attachment to work. We eventually identified the problem when he told me he had simply pasted the image rather than saving it as an attachment. He couldn't work out how he could see the image but no one else he sent it to could.

I had already guessed that there might have been some IE6 compatibility issues but not to this scale. As I develop rather a few websites, I figured it might be a good idea to install a copy on my computer. Thankfully, I have a fully working computer finally capable of dual booting XP and Windows 7 so I tried to roll back the IE8 update back to the IE6 original. All seemed to be going well but I have now lost the ability to right click or fill in forms.

Despite my best efforts today, I have found no way of remedying this short of a reinstall which I don't particularly fancy now that I have it dual booting so nicely. I will persevere for the rest of the week but would rather not have this functionality than face the consequences of a reinstall!