Working for a digital design company you soon hear of web designers love of all things IE6.
When designing a site you want all people that visit your site to see it the same which is why IE6 has been subject to a lot of hacks. Google recently announced that they would join other browsers and no longer support IE6. Googles shift coincides with a lot of problems concerning compatibility and outdated technology and was/is a concern for general security and stability.
The most relevant incompatibility issue of concern now is the start of HTML5. HTML5 is going to be big for web designers and open a lot of functionality that designers want to get their hands on to build new innovative design.
So with these concerns why are people still using such an outdated browser, there are two main reasons:-
- Standard browser for XP, which is widely used.
- Some people don’t update
IE6 was originally released on 27th August 2001 and in 2003 IE held 95% of the market, but in 2004 Mozilla Firefox was released being a better browser for the end user and IE lost a lot of users.
Since then we have seen the release of Chrome, Google’s browser, which has encouraged Firefox, IE and smaller browsers step up to the faster running speeds, nicer overall search and general ease of use.
Do you think this will mean the end of IE, when Google’s goes ahead with its plan cease support?
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I nearly had an assgasm when I start reading that. That’s just silly. It reminds me of the point in time I took my ex-girlfriend straight down to the community walmart to find some tubes but all they had was a plastic swimming pool and a couple of doggie bones.We improvised with some plastic clothespins and some neon yellow weedwhacker line but theres nothing like for the real thing. I reckon that as the overall economy way out to in china or wherever gets even more serious then those french people are gonna start charging more for their plastic crap. I’m hoping it gets real pricy so that a variety of them uptight city individuals start browsing at walmart. Then I can go down there and giggle at them and key their cars when they try to take up two parking spaces.
Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?- Bumper Sticker-