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IE6IFY
- long 16y agoVery briefly, it works by randomly repositioning page elements.
- nbpoole 16y agoNot quite. Here's the cleaned up JS from the bookmarklet: function () { var i = 0, r = function (n) { return Math.floor(Math.random() * n) }, f = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].getElementsByTagName('*'), o = function (e) { return typeof(e.style) == 'object' && e.tagName != 'SCRIPT' }, s = function () { while (!o(e = f[r(f.length)])) {} return e.style }; while (i++ < 5) { s().display = r(2) ? 'block' : 'inline'; s().position = r(2) ? 'absolute' : 'relative'; s().margin = r(2) ? '0' : '1em'; s().padding = r(2) ? '0' : '1em'; s().width = r(2) ? '' : 'auto'; } })(); Every time you click the button, it does the following: 1. Randomly selects an element from the page that isn't an object or a script. 2. Randomly switches the display property to either block or inline, the position property to absolute or relative, the margin property to 0 or 1 em, the padding property to 0 or 1em, and the width to a blank string or auto. 3. Repeats steps 1/2 until 5 elements have had these transformations applied.
- armandososa 16y agowhy use document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0] instead of document.body ? (it's a legit, not snarky, question ) EDIT: formating.
- nbpoole 16y agoBecause maybe there's more than one body? :P [Seriously though, I have no idea]
- bauchidgw 16y agothere is nothing i havent seen before.... a multi million euro betting site (sponsor of real madrid) had this for years until i suggested it was a bad idea (and a lots of dev man days later......)
- long 16y agogetElementsByTagName always returns a NodeList, which is an Array-like object. You want the first thing in the array.
- generalk 16y agoYou know, you're probably fine if you always assume there's only one body tag. That said, I've seen this and worse when looking at the output of highly-paid web dev departments at large companies. One site we recently saw had five opening html tags, head sections, and body tags. All the head sections were different, and none were closed, including roughly half the content tags we saw. It's a testament to the "be loose in what you accept" mantra of the web, and to the browser devs themselves, that this monstrosity rendered properly. I'm not saying "enterprise" developers are bad by definition, but the enterprise sure is large enough for the bad ones to sneak by.
- long 16y agoProps for typing up a more detailed version, which is what I started to do, but then got lazy and decided to make a somewhat vague general statement.
- kaerast 16y agoI'm guessing @HipsterIE6 disapproves
- barista 16y agoWhy do people use @ mentions in places which don't support them?
- jdub 16y agoTo indicate they're talking about a Twitter user, without saying "The Twitter user, HipsterIE6", you humourless ninny.
- scott_s 16y agoI've seen people using it here, when referencing a sibling post in a thread. I think some people have generalized it to mean "I'm talking about someone who I know will read this."
- TeHCrAzY 16y agohttp://vanillaforums.org http://vanillaforums.org use the format as a functional component. @Username in a post will (per target user settings) send them an email with a link to the post. Great way to drag specific people in to a thread.
- SoftwareMaven 16y agoI think it has genericized beyond Twitter to mean "somebody with a username of HipsterIE6". I've seen it on pretty much every site I visit to mean users on that site. Of course, then figuring out context becomes non-trivial: is this Twitter's HipsterIE6 or HN's HipsterIE6?
- cgranade 16y agoI miss using ~ to indicate usernames.
- sinaiman 16y agoHaha, nice one, this technology will surely be bought by Microsoft to support their anti-IE6 operations. http://ie6countdown.com/ http://ie6countdown.com/
- ootachi 16y agoIt'd be awesome if someone actually reverse engineered the algorithm and created a bookmarklet to reproduce it. This page [1] seems to have a lot of useful info. [1]: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html
- greattypo 16y agoThis would be funny if it wasn't so true.
- leviathant 16y agoThis might actually be handy if it really did show what a page would look like in IE6. Instead, it comes across to me as a trivial CSS/JS novelty with a somewhat misleading name. Can I have those 10 seconds back?
- ElbertF 16y agoThe name was inspired by http://cornify.com http://cornify.com, how is it misleading? I'd be happy to refund your 10 seconds.
- plnewman 16y agoIt doesn't actually simulate ie6, it just moves things around randomly (see comments below).
- bauchidgw 16y agowhich is a pretty good description of how ie6 renders pages.
- rbanffy 16y agoStill, it's not accurate ;-) edit: I doubt it's possible to be - that would imply duplicating the bugs in IE6, something I doubt even Microsoft could pull off.
- yuhong 16y agoYea, can you really run IE6-only web apps using it?
- kingsidharth 16y agoC'mon! It's just a bit of fun!
- Groxx 16y agoI'll stick with Cornification, it's a lot more satisfying. ... can I have their 10 seconds?
- oniTony 16y agoIt works even better after clicking the button a few times.
- eschutte2 16y agoReminds me of my buddy Mats Bryntse's IE6Frame. He presented it at a meetup at Yahoo about a year ago: http://mankzblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/ie6-frame-to-battle-chrome-frame/ http://mankzblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/ie6-frame-to-battl...
- cypherpunks01 16y agoMore IE6 humor: the IE6 effect! http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/ie6/ http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/effects/ie6/
- ElbertF 16y agoOh cool, my half-hour project is on HN! I made this a year ago on my netbook while waiting for the bus. Interesting how my silliest ideas are the most successful ones.
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