I had installed Microsoft's latest browser, Internet Explorer 7, fairly soon after it was initially released. It was after this that I revamped the pictures page, and I continued merrily along, thinking all was right with the world.

Another computer of mine has the old IE6 installed on it, so I thought I might take a look at the pictures page in IE6 just to make sure that it still looked like it was supposed to, since I haven't seen it in IE6 since I made the changes to the pictures page. I was aghast at what I saw. It looked terrible! I guess the changes in IE7 were of such significance that IE6 didn't know what to do with some of the new code, so it just put it all over the page in a random fashion.

I started getting nervous, since I know that some users still have IE6. What disappointment they must have felt when they could not look at the pictures on the site, which is in itself the main content featured at abandonedrails.com!

I have put a temporary fix in place: when a user first visits a picture page, the user's browser's version is determined. If the browser is not Firefox or IE7, the user is redirected to an abbreviated version of the pictures page, which displays correctly in IE6 (and hopefully IE 5.5, but that remains to be determined). Perhaps a more suitable, more permanent solution will be put in place in the future.

But for now, browse away IE6 users!