Internet Explorer 6 Sim Game
April 1st, 2009
You need Flash 10 to view the awesome. It’s a free and fast upgrade.
Instructions
For the first few seconds, you’ll see the website design that you must build. The creative department was nice enough to cut up the HTML elements for you to just drag and drop into everyone’s favorite WYSIWYG IDE: Front Page 97.
Then the timer will start. Drag and drop the elements from your assets directory on the right, to the WYSIWYG IDE on the left. Position the element correctly. Now you should test it for IE6 by pressing the big IE6 icon (or press [ENTER] to toggle). Go back to your IDE by pressing the icon again or the [ENTER] key, and reposition the element so that it will look better in IE6. Keep switching between IE6 preview and your IDE until it looks right. Then drag and drop the next element in.
If you forget how the comp looks, hit the Preview button at the top (or press [SPACEBAR] to toggle).
If you have time, you can fine tune the element positioning by nudging them, hit [UP ARROW] [DOWN ARROW] [LEFT ARROW] and [RIGHT ARROW]
When you are satisfied with how it looks in IE6, send your work to your boss for review by clicking the big Outlook Express icon.
Be aware the deadline, if time runs out, you lose automatically. So just turn in what you got and maybe you won’t lose.
Scoring
Valid Markup: How close your layout looks like the designer’s comp.
Deadline Bonus: Amount of time left, minus a penalty for unused page elements
Front Page 97 is a little buggy, so if you find any bugs, please post them in comments.
Post your scores below
Sincerely,
The Bobs
you've just summed up my work life and slammed it onto the gaming canvas.
yup, don't you just love it? what a great (mis)use of talent eh?