Comments on: Killing IE 6

By: Arsen

Arsen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:34:17 +0000

At our company, security is a top priority, and as such our service does not support IE6. However, we understand that some people at work have no other option other than IE6. As a response, we created a document for them to send to their IT guys which outlines reasons why they should offer an alternative to IE6.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/1768.....ive-to-IE6

-Arsen
http://mitto.com
Your Safe and Secure Online Password Manager

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:54:41 +0000

I recently updated my site to css (yes…I know…) and decided that now was the time to just not worry about IE6 support. True, I don’t have many visitors and I’m not selling anything (it’s purely cos I like to have a hobby) but I figure that if every new site takes the approach of not caring about IE6 then people are going to be encouraged to upgrade to something better. As long as web designers keep making sure that sites look fine in IE6 then there is going to be a sizable minority of people whose attitude is just “well, it works for me” no matter how many times they’re told that IE6 is broken, buggy and a dream come true for crackers.

It should be treated like the switchover to digital TV: just set a date and after than the whole world stops supporting IE6. Tough luck if you’re stupid enough to still be using it!

By: The Scribe of Rotten Hill

The Scribe of Rotten Hill — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:43:37 +0000

Reminds me of waiting for IE3 to die. Now THERE’s a browser I couldn’t wait to see the back of!

By: carlo amoroso

carlo amoroso — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:36:43 +0000

i simply agree.. with the “killing of ie6…” and let’s think about another field, movie!
if you want to see a dvd.. you use a dvd player, If you want to see a blu-ray movie, you need that player. try to play a blu-ray disc in a dvd player, you see nothing So.. if you want to see/use/play “modern web sites” you need “modern browsers”. and the best part is that all new modern browser are free….That’s all! ;-D

By: Michael Lefevre

Michael Lefevre — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:21:37 +0000

“I don’t know of any major sites that explicitly support Omniweb, Konqueror, Camino, Seamonkey, but they work as they share code with WebKit and Gecko”

They _should_ work, but if the site looks at the user agent and decides not to serve any content, they may not. If they have written a site which at least attempts to follow some standards, and it doesn’t work in IE6, that’s fine. But, based on my experience with idisk and Firefox 3, and reading of this stuff, it sounds more like they have written a site for Firefox Safari and IE 7 and are blocking everything else, which isn’t so good. Surely they could at least throw some kind of text page out to IE 6 and other browsers…

By: eatme

eatme — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:47:58 +0000

I would relegate IE6 to the text only template but a corporate environment is stuck on IE6 with no plans to upgrade, so i cant kill yet. Sucks to be me.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:56:07 +0000

@Michael Lefevre: They never supported Opera AFAIK, so they didn’t change anything in that regard. By supporting Firefox they support all gecko browsers… I don’t know of any major sites that explicitly support Omniweb, Konqueror, Camino, Seamonkey, but they work as they share code with WebKit and Gecko.

@Xandrex: There are many Windows Safari users who are happy, just because it doesn’t please you, doesn’t mean it doesn’t “work”. The number of Win 2k systems still browsing the web is barely and more than NT4 and Windows 98 these days… at some point it’s just not worth it. These people will never upgrade, so we need to just let them sit. We can’t hold the world back because a handful don’t upgrade. Eventually they too will upgrade.

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By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:36:03 +0000

Me, I keep IE6 everywere I can just to make Microsoft look bad. Yes, I know I’m going to hell…

By: Xandrex

Xandrex — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:53:22 +0000

You cannot upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 if you don’t have windows XP or Windows Vista.
You cannot use a working Safari if you don’t have MacOSX.
You can get Firefox 3 if you use Linux / MacOSX or Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

Given that, options are not available for all users. In fact, in an enterprise network, we are lucky Firefox developped the NTML authentication, otherwise corporate users wouldn’t be able to use Firefox in an Internet Explorer oriented network.

You’re talking about web experience, which is very good because it’s the way evolution goes. But meeting standards /de facto/ is also important and you’re right when you say IE6 cannot be yet forgotten.