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Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Yurtdışı Eğitim — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:26:44 -0000

Google chrome...

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

website builder — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:54:24 -0000

WebStarts.com is no longer supporting IE6 either.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

ThinkSketchDesign — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:12:41 -0000

Here's one of those ideas that's too tempting to admit at first that's it's stupid:

What if we just cicumvent IE completely with a browser emulator?. If someone is using IE, we just open up a full-screen flash player and run a pixel by pixel emulator of, say, Firefox. Yeah, it's insidious, but it just.. might.. work...
-thinksketchdesign.com

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

jirolico — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:15:35 -0000

Opera, as good as it is, has 2% market share and is thus, quite unfortunately, looked over by most people.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Tim — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:46:11 -0000

Yeah, I'm a web developer and I find IE7 and IE8 no better. The support for CSS is marginally better but still different enough from FF/Sf/Chr/Op that it needs to be separately tested and needs its own custom stylesheet. The support for vector graphics and bitmap graphics is exactly the same (VML instead of SVG, and nothing instead of Canvas, respectively). Plus IE8 added all kinds of new ways for things to break, especially with its two rendering engines ("kind of like IE7 but not exactly" and "completely different from anything else in the world"), and you can never be absolutely certain which you're getting.

Some of the people I work with hate IE8 even more than IE6. In the past couple months, we've certainly spent the most browser-compatibility time on IE8. At least IE6's flaws are well-known and well-documented. IE8 sucks in twice as many all-new ways, and doesn't actually fix any of the big-picture problems that IE6 had.

I guess they're trying to do this in a way that's Microsoft-friendly, but really, IE6 is no worse than IE7 or IE8.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Matt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:57:14 -0000

Why is Opera not listed as one of the suggested alternatives?

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Robin Wauters — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:24:12 -0000

Ha! I wasn't looking for an extra link to our post, but rather the two other anti-IE6 sites.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Anthony Ha — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:48:11 -0000

Thanks Robin, would have included a link to your other article too, but there's only so much TechCrunch linking I can I can get away with in a single post.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

duke — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:18:29 -0000

The line needs to be drawn sometime. 2 major versions and most of a decade (how much time is this in internet time?) are a good indication that these people/companies have no intention of upgrading. At this point, the only reasons to not upgrade are all poor excuses to cover up failure.

If a company can't afford to upgrade their internal apps, they can cry on someone else's shoulder. I refuse to suffer as a developer because they don't have sysadmins who know how to audit applications. If they don't have the money/time to do it now, they should just give it up. They'll use the same excuse in 6 months, next year, 5 years from now, etc. They will never have the time or money to do this, but the excuses... those never run out.

If you can get by and easily support this relic, then more power to you, but enjoy your maintenance costs. I can no longer justify this, for sure.

I'm happy to leave these dinosaurs in the dust. Good riddance.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

David Rusenko — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:51:35 -0000

That's exactly the idea. Even if a bunch of the remaining IE 6 users are corporate, hopefully a few of them will become aware of the fact that their browser is almost 9 years old and start putting pressure on IT to upgrade.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Dan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:29:18 -0000

When the CEO can't take his YouTube breaks he'll have the IT guys update the company's browsers.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

namenameere — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:06:58 -0000

Bah IE6 rocked and I wanna use Netscape Navigator once more!

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

AJ — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:32:14 -0000

Did the folks at justin.tv, posterous, and weebly previously A/B test the messaging on that banner?

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Robin Wauters — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:26:32 -0000

Yeah we had a technical prob for about 5 minutes, apologies. Should work fine now.

Sites are http://hey-it.com and http://ie6update.com by the way.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:20:14 -0000

Robin, that link took me to a password protected area, I could not close the login box, or the tab, or even Firefox itself. Had to ctrl-alt-del shut it down.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Zoli Erdos — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:00:34 -0000

What, they introduced IE 6? I totally missed that.. still surfing on IE 2.0 :-)

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

venkat — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:11:56 -0000

Ie 6 is dead for me and internet .

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Robert Johnson — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:07:08 -0000

They need to include IE 7 and 8 in that too.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Joshua Sciarrino — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:17:08 -0000

You do realize that a large portion of people that are using IE6 are at work where they have NO control over the browser...

Stupid startups. I like the idea but...it's not practical when you hear that a majority of the computers are businesses...where some IT guy controls the issue.

Re: Startups unite to drive nail into the coffin of Internet Explorer 6

Robin Wauters — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:08:54 -0000

Ha! Here's two more of those sites:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2...