Comments on: The real end of IE6 http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/ Strong opinions weakly held Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:59:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carla http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-8007 Carla Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:02:14 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10653#comment-8007 <p>Please! The final death of IE6 can't come too soon for me.</p> Please! The final death of IE6 can’t come too soon for me.

]]> By: Tom Bradshaw http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-7994 Tom Bradshaw Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:20:42 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10653#comment-7994 <p>As a web designer IE6 can be the bane of my life. But alot of people still use it - clients included. So it will continue to be an important consideration when it comes to developing sites. Although I think recently people are becoming more aware of the choice of browsers through Microsoft having to offer a choice and the introduction of Google Chrome. This can only be a positive thing... although IE7 isn't exactly perfect.</p> As a web designer IE6 can be the bane of my life. But alot of people still use it – clients included. So it will continue to be an important consideration when it comes to developing sites. Although I think recently people are becoming more aware of the choice of browsers through Microsoft having to offer a choice and the introduction of Google Chrome. This can only be a positive thing… although IE7 isn’t exactly perfect.

]]> By: Lisa http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-7967 Lisa Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:23:16 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10653#comment-7967 <p>Microsoft won't drop support for IE6 for one reason: market share. Their fear is that if they drop support for IE6, and IE6 users are forced to adopt something new, that choice will be a non-Microsoft browser. Statistics have shown that, as IE8 usage has increased, IE6 and IE7 use has decreased proportionally, while Firefox has maintained their leadership market share.</p> <p>When Google introduced Chrome, you could watch the monthly broswer stats and see the migration from IE browsers (mainly IE7) to Chrome.</p> <p>I think it's 100% a purely a market share issue. They've lost the browser war and they're trying to hang onto whatever market share they can.</p> <p>It's that simple.</p> Microsoft won’t drop support for IE6 for one reason: market share. Their fear is that if they drop support for IE6, and IE6 users are forced to adopt something new, that choice will be a non-Microsoft browser. Statistics have shown that, as IE8 usage has increased, IE6 and IE7 use has decreased proportionally, while Firefox has maintained their leadership market share.

When Google introduced Chrome, you could watch the monthly broswer stats and see the migration from IE browsers (mainly IE7) to Chrome.

I think it’s 100% a purely a market share issue. They’ve lost the browser war and they’re trying to hang onto whatever market share they can.

It’s that simple.

]]> By: Rusty http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-7876 Rusty Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:49:16 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10653#comment-7876 <p>Though I agree that IE 6's usefulness is at its end, it does bring about some nostalgic moments... I guess we really have left the world of Geocities, animated gifs, and frames behind us :(</p> <p>On another matter, what does this mean for the Zen CSS Garden? Isn't the site largely based on support for browsers that the "majority" uses? I mean, that majority now uses more modern browsers, so how will the Garden change? Will styles focus on newer standards, such as CSS 2/3/etc? It'll be a drag if I never got to contribute a useful design to it :P</p> Though I agree that IE 6′s usefulness is at its end, it does bring about some nostalgic moments… I guess we really have left the world of Geocities, animated gifs, and frames behind us :(

On another matter, what does this mean for the Zen CSS Garden? Isn’t the site largely based on support for browsers that the “majority” uses? I mean, that majority now uses more modern browsers, so how will the Garden change? Will styles focus on newer standards, such as CSS 2/3/etc? It’ll be a drag if I never got to contribute a useful design to it :P

]]> By: 1upinteractive (One Up Interactive) http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-7771 1upinteractive (One Up Interactive) Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:36:41 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10653#comment-7771 <p>Just read some GREAT news... IE6 is going bye bye! http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/ #KILLIE6</p> Just read some GREAT news… IE6 is going bye bye! http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/ #KILLIE6

]]> By: Nathan L. Walls http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-7772 Nathan L. Walls Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:49:31 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10653#comment-7772 <p>Y2K had the advantage of having a hard deadline, so affected companies <em>had</em> to take it seriously. With IE6, there's always been some "out." What's odd is the degree to which Microsoft enables and encourages the foot-dragging.</p> Y2K had the advantage of having a hard deadline, so affected companies had to take it seriously. With IE6, there’s always been some “out.” What’s odd is the degree to which Microsoft enables and encourages the foot-dragging.

]]> By: Anna Green http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-7770 Anna Green Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:36:55 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10653#comment-7770 <p>This can't come soon enough for me! Im a web developer and i am constantly having to work websites for IE6 because thats what the customer uses. They often don't understand that its a compromise between looking good OK in IE6 and looking right in all other browsers. Which the majority uses. The sooner its forgotten the better!</p> This can’t come soon enough for me! Im a web developer and i am constantly having to work websites for IE6 because thats what the customer uses. They often don’t understand that its a compromise between looking good OK in IE6 and looking right in all other browsers. Which the majority uses. The sooner its forgotten the better!

]]> By: groodt (Greg Roodt) http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-7760 groodt (Greg Roodt) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:16:50 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10653#comment-7760 <p>About time! http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/</p> About time! http://rc3.org/2010/01/19/the-real-end-of-ie6/

]]>