Comments on: Say “no” to IE6

By: Bryon

Bryon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:52:26 +0000

Well I actually found one site out five selected from above that checked out error free. Congratulations Rik.

weston.ruter.net
5 errors 1 warning

claude.betancourt.us
8 errors 2 warnings

zoomin.co.nz
65 errors 10 warnings

webglossary.co.uk
27 errors

Just say no to pages that don’t cut it!

By: Bryon

Bryon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:18:33 +0000

It hardly surprises me to find that the all the complaints concerning IE6 (Which is just as secure as any browser provided you have a firewall and anti-virus plus Spybot S&D installed.)appear to be coming from sites whose pages don’t validate according to the schema indicated on their pages. It is ironic that such sloppy coding tends to be ignored while they go on and on about cosmetic issues concerning IE6 that can be fixed easily enough by using Google. This page for example has 83 errors and 46 warnings and not one has anything to do with IE6.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/10/11/say-no-to-ie6/&ss=&outline=

Just say no to pages that don’t cut it!

By: k3n

k3n — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:33:00 +0000

SaveTheDevelopers.org under new ownership…?

By: olivier

olivier — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:30:26 +0000

I’d like to see a website referencing good stuff done for modern non-IE6 browsers. Stuff that are impossible or very difficult to do with IE6, and just normally easy with new browsers.

That way, potential clients may understand was they can ask for if they agree to drop IE6 compatibility, and developers would get a place that sums up techs free of IE6 workarounds.

By: Lennie

Lennie — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:48:21 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, IE5.5 was more predictable. It may not support as many features and it also had it’s problems, but they were more predictable.

Ofcourse I do think Trident isn’t in any way an engine which should be used on the current internet.

Webdevelopers everywhere should boycot it.

I’m still not sure if I should hope IE8 is better so we’ll have less problems, but maybe more market-share for IE or if I should hope for a disaster, so we can tell people to not use it anymore.

By: Arnout

Arnout — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:39:03 +0000

One easy way for people to upgrade there browser is add render as IE6 feature in IE8. This way.. people can mark sites as working in IE6 only, and users could just use the latest browser.

But that happening is just as likely as IE implementing the webkit engine.. instead of trident

By: Tristan Seligmann

Tristan Seligmann — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:10:39 +0000

My users are mainly from large corporates, and their IT departments would love nothing more than to upgrade to IE7; the problem is that they have too many existing applications that would break horribly if they did so. No clue how to solve that one, though…

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:52:48 +0000

I often dream of a kind of virus that would target IE6 and IE5.5. This virus would spread all over the world in a few hours… and the problem would be solved.

By: Guy Fraser

Guy Fraser — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:40:19 +0000

The easiest way to put an end to IE6 is to simply stop wasting time supporting it. That way, people using IE6 will see more and more sites break on their antiquated browser and upgrade to a browser that actually works.

One thing is for sure, as long as we developers keep supporting IE6, end users will keep using it because they have no reason to upgrade.

By: Tuzemec

Tuzemec — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:07:31 +0000

@Rik – I think MS dropped the genuine windows check for installing IE7 some time ago.