ElbertF Blog

IE6ify Bookmarklet

Today I created yet another utterly useless (but hopefully mildly entertaining) application; IE6ify.

It’s a bookmarklet that brings the joy of browsing the web with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 to modern browsers. For almost a decade IE6 has managed to intrigue me by breaking standards-compliant websites in the most unpredictable ways. Whatever you did to fix a problem only made things worst, like an ugly dragon that grows two heads every time you cut one off.

Since it’s not possible to run IE6 natively on Windows Vista or 7 and IE6 in Linux Wine is a nightmare, I figured a lot of you would miss the old days. With IE6ify you can break any website in true IE6 fashion.

Website: elbertf.com/ie6ify.

JavaScript Tetris

Because I have nothing better to do with my time I wrote a Tetris game in JavaScript. I know there are plenty out there already but it was fun to make and it brought back some memories (I wrote my first Tetris game in DOS when I was 14). Coincidentally, Tetris just turned 25.

I released it under GPL, feel free to grab the code from the source and do whatever you like with it.

Play the game at elbertf.com/tetris