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Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

SEO Services Neveda — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:12:43 -0000

Very nice read. Thank you for the information.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

ascore — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:25:10 -0000

You are a moron. Go kill yourself

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Franco Cedillo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:05:05 -0000

ie6 should die very soon

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

George.W — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:58:38 -0000

I can't get their site to come up. Tried yesterday, same result.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Joe No Time Project Manager — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:21:02 -0000

Fucking A! Let's kill this mother-bloated SOB, sad timing issues, JS issues browser, let me go get my gun.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

jufemaiz — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:26:05 -0000

Far more relevant is hey-it.com.

You need to realise *why* IE6 is still such a big force. For that I have one word: enterprise.

DIGG did the hard work to identify this (hello, talk to anyone in enterprise to *know* this).

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Troll Hunter — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:20:13 -0000

Don't feed the troll!

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Geoffrey Liu — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:38:11 -0000

Excellent article! I will reblog.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

cabri — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:57:17 -0000

Bah! My idiot employer just two years ago bought into a major program that currently only works with IE6. And we haven't even finished the roll-out yet! Luckily someone pointed me to PortableApps and now I only have to use IE6 with work-related stuff.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

chrisedmo — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:22:21 -0000

Good about time, i think its been supported for long enough. Really there is no excuse, there has been enough warning and i know of no other industry that has tolerated such archaic behaviour.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Dan Citriniti — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:42:59 -0000

Ugh, don't "upgrade" to an Apple application on a non-Macintosh computer. iTunes on Windows kills your RAM and also does some other very spyware-esque things. Safari isn't so bad, but I think even Opera is a better choice.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Russell — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:16:44 -0000

since no one else is going to say it "where is opera?" this must be a sexist article. lol.... let me let you in on a secret, NOBODY CARES!!!!!

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Guest — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:47:53 -0000

Actually I don't understand why they put a new site promoting ie6 upgrade while there's already at least 7 good alternatives
Plus most of the sites which claimed on ie6nomore to join campaign, perfectly work with IE6 without any warning.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Guest — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:38:35 -0000

that's funny but most projects which logo are featured on http://www.ie6nomore.com are not using its script.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Allan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:06:45 -0000

OK. You don't like IE6. It's cramping your style, or rather the styles of your webpages. So?

Why should anyone be forced to undergo the risks and difficulties of changing their software for your artist (or in many case financial) convenience? "If it works, don't fix it" is one of the standard axioms of software development, so why should you, a software user, tell me, or anyone else, to "fix" what is a piece of software that is working?

If you want to "imoprove" your site, go ahead. I won't stop you. But don't assume that I MUST then change my software for your convenience. Frankly, judging from some of the "improvements" I've seen to websites, I would like a means of seeing the "old" site (Mail dot com please note!)

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Brad F. — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:56:00 -0000

What's more sexist? The person that called him out on it or the person who wrote it innocently as an example? If that's sexist, then how much of our 'great' literature is sexist?

You can't dig into everything, looking for something that may or may not be sexist, or may be able to be interpreted as sexist. There's a difference between intent and effect, and it's only because the person reading is looking for it. I never made the connection that this Amy seems to have made. Or that a lot of you have made. It's an expression used to carry a point. That's it.

Being 'politically correct' should only be taken so far. The way things are going, people won't be able to say that peaches are soft and sweet without fearing someone jumping on them about it being sexually oriented and sexist. This whole drive to make everything politically correct and as unoffensive to everyone in the world is going to destroy language and eventually thought.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Shawn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:45:29 -0000

May want to update your "outdated" script to include konqueror and opera, these are both modern browsers despite not being mainstream.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Chuck — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:37:58 -0000

It's definitely a challenge - but one that needs to be addressed. Fast forward a few years and it will be the same issue just another browser version that's causing problems that can impede innovation. I think the key is to make sure that you are doing things like this and communicating to (through pop-up warning or other communication mediums) that support for a certain browser version is ending or no longer supported in a future time frame. Then make easy for them, by pointing them where to go to get a supported version.

Definitely support the movement - Good luck to us all!

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Ron — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:57:09 -0000

So be it. Eventually the decision makers will try to access YouTube and notice that their browser doesn't work!

Wallets will open when the CEO realizes he / she can't do basic web tasks at the office.

Oh for anybody interested in the IT vs IE6 battle check out this website: http://hey-it.com/

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Dan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:50:27 -0000

Companies that want decision makers at work to open their corporate wallets are happy to hold the status quo.

YouTube isn't going to lose "the big contract" by ignoring IE6 bugs.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Ron — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:46:07 -0000

Doesn't matter. You need to tell your IT dept that the budget needs to be put in place to either A) phase out IE6 or B) allow staff to use a second more modern browser side-by-side. Otherwise employees will have to deal with non-functioning or reduced-function external websites. This is the reality of the situation.

Nobody outside your company is going to cave to your poor platform choices anymore. The status quo is no longer a viable option.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Milano Lavoro — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:10:47 -0000

that's true.. ie6 it's a nightmare for web designers.. and the real problem is that people still use it..

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Ann — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:56:53 -0000

Yes a website that has been trying to say this for years
http://www.bringdownie6.com/

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Ron — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:57:47 -0000

So be it. You can stick with IE6 and justify it any way you want.

I think the point here is that we in the web development world are no longer going to support it, whether you upgrade or not. Its not our fault your company made the decision back in 2000 to build your software with IE as the frontend.

This is the internet. Stuff changes. Deal with it.

Re: IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6

Greg — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:27:42 -0000

Use Firefox portable at work, you can save it all in one folder without installing anything.