Comments on: Meta Stupidity

By: More on the Meta Nightmare | A Blog by Web Developers Against IE | Microsoft Internet Explorer

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:25:36 +0000

[...] of course we get into the Meta tag **** which some people hail as the savior of the Internet when in reality it has no reason for existing. [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:02:29 +0000

pd: Thanks. Fixed. I should try not to finish writing these posts so late.

By: pd

pd — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:23:54 +0000

Please fix John’s name in your first sentence. It’s Resig not Restig

By: Alex Bishop

Alex Bishop — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:31:23 +0000

The problem with Internet Explorer is that it’s included in Windows, which means that Microsoft has to support the version of IE that shipped with each Windows version until they stop supporting that Windows version (unless they upgrade IE in a Windows Service Pack, as you lose support if you don’t keep up with the Service Packs).

According to http://support.microsoft.com/g.....t_Explorer and http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3071 Microsoft will support Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2 until Tuesday 13th July 2010.

According to http://support.microsoft.com/g.....t_Explorer and http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223 Microsoft will support Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP until Tuesday 8th April 2014.

According to http://support.microsoft.com/g.....t_Explorer and http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=11707 Microsoft will support Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista until Tuesday 11th April 2017.

By: Opera, Mozilla and Safari react to IE’s solution for browser compatibility issues

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:00:58 +0000

[...] Accettura, Mozilla contributor (Read more) “Why not do like WebKit, Mozilla, and Opera do and start providing nightlies so developers can [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:50:12 +0000

Neil: Doubt there’s any requirement to keep IE 6 up to date. One can argue that a few security vulnerabilities in the past have taken a while to be released… was Microsoft in a breech of contract? Could a Windows 2000 customer sue? Doubt it.

Microsoft can also just discontinue it on all but Windows 2000. Notably getting rid of support for it for Windows XP.

By: $ cat /dev/brain > /dev/blog » This website has been optimized for Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Web 2.0 version

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:40:47 +0000

[...] Meta Stupidity by Robert Accettura [...]

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:13:03 +0000

Since Windows 2000 can only run IE6, is Microsoft actually contractually able to drop support for IE6 yet?