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Running Lower Versions of IE on Windows 7

First check if you have: Windows XP Mode (start > all programs > Windows Virtual PC > Windows XP Mode). You most likely don’t have it; you can download it here at Microsoft (installation goes smoother if you’re using IE–go figure) This will likely take a while and will require a restart, so be prepared [...]

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CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer

reference: www.smashingmagazine.com , css3pie.com , www.catswhocode.com After playing around with these IE fixes the only one that held up to reasonable standards is css3pie.com, which is nice because it fixes border-radius, box-shadow, border-image, multiple background images, and linear-gradient as background image on IE (depending on the version). I am giving up on filters as they [...]

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PIE (recommended fixes)

I would recommend using this in your css property lines. Works (mostly) in IE6 & up. Seems to be the best IE fix through my experience. Filters are too ugly. PIE currently has full or partial support for the following CSS3 features: border-radius box-shadow border-image multiple background images linear-gradient as background image #myAwesomeElement { border: [...]

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Conditional Comments

Conditional Comment for IE with an alert box: <!–[if gte IE 7]> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”javascript”> alert(“Congratulations! You are running Internet Explorer 7 or greater.”); </SCRIPT> <P>Thank you for closing the message box.</P> <![endif]–> Universal IE 6 Stylesheet css-tricks.com: All good browsers plus IE 7 and up get REGULAR-STYLESHEET.css, browers IE 6 and below get a special [...]

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