And this is IE6's backlash, written , and concerning Rants, Web
Lots of conversation about IE6 holding everything back (Christian, Robert, et al), which is something that people have been talking about for ages (me last year, me in 2005, Zeldman in 2001 in a more general sense). A point to remember here: no-one (well, no-one serious) is suggesting that IE6 users get a site which says "you are using IE6: bugger off." Instead, the suggestion really is that IE6 get the same treatment as Netscape 4: it gets the unenhanced version of your sites. You're already building sites that work in every browser (if you're not, go away and start doing that), and you're already building sites that give Netscape 4 the version without many enhancements. Why not move IE6 into that category?
If your argument is that IE6 people will not like your site without enhancements because it doesn't do as much or doesn't work as well then...you're not building sites properly. Stop doing that.
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ethana2
ethana2
--but in all seriousness, it's probably a good idea to just have a separate www and mie subdomain and redirect IE user agents to the latter.
Colin
You mean there still are people maintaining websites for Netscape 4?? :)
CoolGoose
When IE6 passes under 10% I'm not going to code for it anymore.
Jeff Ollie
Why shouldn't we? There are lots of sites that say, "you're not using Internet Explorer: bugger off"...
sil
Jeff: because those people hate the web and we don't.
Chris Sherlock
Oh man... at where I work, the IT "helpdesk" told me that they don't support any browser BUT Internet Explorer 6. When I explained to them that not even Microsoft support IE6 they just said "But we don't support Internet Explorer 7".
Thank you random Bangalore helpdesk person.
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Simon
Since the comment on your blog last year our IE6 users now get the same sort of prompt as users of other obsolete or untested browsers. They can press ahead, but we can't stop the random crashing behaviour - Microsoft presumably know what the cause is since IE7 doesn't do it.
Software has a life span - in the web 8 years is eternity.
Please fix your blog so the comment box renders sensibly in Firefox 3 so I can edit my comment like a regular text box, instead of bleeding menus into it, before ranting that it is we who are doing web design wrong ;)
sil
Simon: sorry, puzzled. It works fine for me in FF3. Can you drop me a mail with a screenshot or something of the problem?
no-one (well, no-one serious) is suggesting that IE6 users get a site which says “you are using IE6: bugger off.”
I'm just saying they should get one full page prerendered .gif file, and if they click it, it takes them to page explaining why they need a better browser and redirects after 5 seconds to getfirefox.com