Posts Tagged ‘ie 6’


Killing IE 6

Apple’s MobileMe will not support IE 6. Per an email to subscribers:

To use the new web applications, make sure you have one of these browsers: Safari 3, Internet Explorer 7, or Firefox 2 or later.

37signals is now doing the same, and will be dropping IE 6 support.
For most things that I’m in developing, IE [...]

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | 14 Comments »

Meta Stupidity Followup

In the past day I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading on what others think of this meta stupidity. A few suggested remedies are particularly good and worth a post linking to. My two favorites both from Mozilla hackers are these:
David Baron has a must read blog post. Since the bulk [...]

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | No Comments »

Meta Stupidity

As Robert O’Callahan, John Resig, Anne van Kesteren all point out, this idea of using a meta tag to select a rendering engine is bad. Here are my personal thoughts on the issue. Not as a browser developer but as a web developer.
Essentially the argument by the IE team is this: Rather than [...]

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | 8 Comments »