Comments on: The Death of Internet Explorer 6: Still Prematurely Called

By: Pixel Village » Blog Archive » Adeus IE6!

Pixel Village » Blog Archive » Adeus IE6! — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:19:27 +0000

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By: Bill Dunno

Bill Dunno — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:52:32 +0000

can’t do this in a paid job, but maybe if every designer added this piece at the beginning of each style sheet of his own pages…
* { border:666px;}
only works in (lte) ie6.

[change the value to lower numbers to see what's happening]

By: devlounge.net: “The Death of Internet Explorer 6: Still Prematurely Called” « Is IE6 dead yet?

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:19:29 +0000

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By: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:50:41 +0000

Bailsoft, that’s not true at all. It just got caught in the spam filter for some reason, that’s all.

Thanks for commenting!

By: Bailsoft

Bailsoft — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:12:24 +0000

What’s going on here? When I posted on the 15/10/8 my message of 14/10/8 wasn’t visible, that is not until I posted my warning. Apologies, this is a balanced, if quirky, Website.

By: Bailsoft

Bailsoft — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:09:27 +0000

I see my comments in support of IE6 were unwelcome. Warning to others, don’t post anything positive about IE6 as it will be deleted!

By: Bailsoft

Bailsoft — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:39:48 +0000

After finding that IE6 could no longer render SlashDot correctly, I recently ‘upgraded’ from IE6 to Firefox only to find that I was unable to order my groceries from Tesco.com; Firefox kept asking to save all the ‘.asp’ pages rather than render them! Therefore, I ‘upgraded’ again to IE7 and found the user interface dreadful and (relatively) uncustomisable. In addtion IE7, like Vista, is really sloooooooow. Consequently I’m back to IE6. Long live IE6!
Why is new software so bad? Because it’s too complicated, that’s why. And don’t get me started on new hardware. Widescreen? I think you mean less tall!

By: Ludwig Pettersson

Ludwig Pettersson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:36:23 +0000

You don’t have to support Safari or Opera because they render pretty much exactly like Firefox, which means they don’t require any extra work – so you can’t compare them to IE6.

By: keif

keif — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:44:31 +0000

The problem I see is we’re going about it all wrong. “We should support IE6 because so many use it.” Did you check stats on IE5 and hold the same arguments that we need to support them because they hadn’t updated yet?

People are just *dying* to tout “I support IE6″ instead of saying “Yes, I will support IE6, but if you drop support, you’ll save money and time by asking your users to upgrade.”

It’s a matter of no one has taken the time to come up with a study (or information) of the costs of supporting IE6 – the hazards, the flaws, the costs in fixing IE6 specific bugs.

No one wants to “be the one” and instead wants to point out “so many people use it – it’d e wrong to ask them to upgrade for a better experience” – well, we do tell people this every day.
“Maybe it’s time you traded in your tank and get something a little more economical.”
“Maybe you should eat healthier and work out a bit.”
“Maybe you should vote with your head and not your political party.”
“Maybe you should buy American.”

See where I’m going? Non-stop inundating, but no one wants to stand up and go back to the (omg, nielsen unapproved) “You need to upgrade your browser.”

Enough coddling. People need to be lead, the majority *does not* constitute some right that we shouldn’t tell them what to do.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:23:19 +0000

Facebook actually helped the case by prompting all of its users to upgrade to IE7 a while back.

I think it’s important to realise that this is not just about ‘trivial site aesthetics’…it’s about sustaining the momentum of progress across the entire Internet landscape!

New browsers bring with them new chances for developements and functionality. And by forcing users to upgrade, we’re forcing the web to ‘upgrade’ – looking forward, that can only be a good thing.

By: Ty (liveblog)

Ty (liveblog) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:43:49 +0000

I was sort of moved to write-up a little piece, helping to usher in the eminent demise of the oft-maligned and rightly so, non-conformist to web standards browser. Linked the article as my homepage. Alas, anyone running IE6 probably is not reading a design blog, and is probably doing nothing these days but going to facebook, because they think that is the “real” internet, and suffice it to think a facebook page is a substitute for a leading-edge website to be viewed in a leading-edge browser.
So fire-up the defibrillator and give that IE6 another zap to debug your latest works. Let’s just hope the ol; boy can take it, lol, lol. R.i.P

By: Hudin

Hudin — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:30:13 +0000

Well, it does appear the IE6 is definitely on the outs. Most of my sites drop a significant number of IE6 users each month (also true here). My personal site only has about 12% on IE6. I still develop for it though, although the next iteration of a number of sites will not include support. There are other, nagging ways to go about getting people to upgrade, like the End6! campaign that I started. In addition to that, I always have the latest version of Firefox on my flash drive to install on someone's machine, although for folks on slow connections (who are often the ones not upgrading), Firefox 3 can be a problem. Hudin