Comments on: Help Accelerate the Demise of IE6 http://www.havocinspired.co.uk/browsers/help-accelerate-the-demise-of-ie6/ Home of Ryan Taylor Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:16:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Zi http://www.havocinspired.co.uk/browsers/help-accelerate-the-demise-of-ie6/#comment-19 Zi Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:04:13 +0000 http://www.havocinspired.co.uk/?p=24#comment-19 Your missing one other category of users still on IE 6. Those on dial up. There is a vast audience out there that still lives outside the broadband reach and the download just takes too long. As a developer it's hard to convince my clients to exclude these customers on principle, because, from what they see there isn't much difference between a tabled layout and a pure css layout. I tried for several years to make pure css and standards work. I've given up and gone back to tables, and let me tell you, it's saved me hundreds of hours of pulling my hair out over ie 5.5 and 6 bugs. The benefits of pure css simply don't outweigh the hacks and headaches needed to make "it work" for the obsolete browsers. Even if I convince a client to support only modern browsers it usually comes back to bite me when their client calls up with a "bug" (aka ie 5.5/6). I then have a choice to fix it, or piss of an un-understanding client. My gut feeling tells me that the nightmare that Microsoft created is going to be around for years to come, and even they are regretting it. Your missing one other category of users still on IE 6. Those on dial up. There is a vast audience out there that still lives outside the broadband reach and the download just takes too long. As a developer it’s hard to convince my clients to exclude these customers on principle, because, from what they see there isn’t much difference between a tabled layout and a pure css layout. I tried for several years to make pure css and standards work. I’ve given up and gone back to tables, and let me tell you, it’s saved me hundreds of hours of pulling my hair out over ie 5.5 and 6 bugs. The benefits of pure css simply don’t outweigh the hacks and headaches needed to make “it work” for the obsolete browsers. Even if I convince a client to support only modern browsers it usually comes back to bite me when their client calls up with a “bug” (aka ie 5.5/6). I then have a choice to fix it, or piss of an un-understanding client.

My gut feeling tells me that the nightmare that Microsoft created is going to be around for years to come, and even they are regretting it.

]]> By: Stone Deft http://www.havocinspired.co.uk/browsers/help-accelerate-the-demise-of-ie6/#comment-18 Stone Deft Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:49:46 +0000 http://www.havocinspired.co.uk/?p=24#comment-18 Yeah IE 6 and lower IE sucks big time and God bless bill gates and his not so brilliant production team for making life of a web developer hell. Why coudn't they just patch IE to comply with web standards because the truth is it won't die, hey it comes packaged with windows xp to start with. Yeah IE 6 and lower IE sucks big time and God bless bill gates and his not so brilliant production team for making life of a web developer hell. Why coudn’t they just patch IE to comply with web standards because the truth is it won’t die, hey it comes packaged with windows xp to start with.

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