My forum doesn't appear in IE6

[CharlesSturtUni]

Seems to work fine in other browsers but in IE6 I just get a big empty white space where the forum should appear.

I've tried disabling stylesheets on the page, so it's not some conflict.

Any suggestions?

http://www.csu.edu.au/study/tips/index-tmp.htm

[Hugo <Nabble>]

IE6 is full of bugs and is not supported anymore by a lot of websites, including youtube (read here). So IE6 is also low priority for us.

[CharlesSturtUni]

OK, but 20% of our site visitors still use the browser, so it's a significant priority for us.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

We can show a tip to upgrade the browser if the user is using IE6.
What do you think?

[CharlesSturtUni]

Can you confirm that the forums do not display in IE6 across the board?

I've tried viewing some of the other forums in IE6 and it doesn't seem to display for me.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Please try clearing the IE6 cache. But this actually depends on the version of IE6. Some IE6 versions work ok, but others don't. Did you try visiting this support forum with IE6?

[CharlesSturtUni]

This support forum does work correctly for me in IE6 however I suspect that is because it is not embedded. It seems to be the code/method of embedding that IE doesn't seem to like.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Cade Whitbourn wrote

It seems to be the code/method of embedding that IE doesn't seem to like.

Yes.
Is your forum embedded? Maybe IE users should visit your forum directly on Nabble, not embedded.

[CharlesSturtUni]

OK, that might be the best solution.

Can we sniff to tell if IE6 and redirect them to nabble if that is the case?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

You can put a small javascript code in your page to do that. Example:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 6") == -1) {
    var link = "http://n2.nabble.com/Study-tips-f3506696.html";
    document.writeln("Please visit the forum at <a href="#">" + link + "</a>");
}
</script>