Finally Microsoft is putting IE6 to death
Ivan | Sun, 2009-04-12 18:19
Last Friday Eric Hebenstreit a lead programmer at Microsoft announced that starting from end of April MS will start offering IE8 as an update for users who are still on IE6 or IE7.
IE6 was a huge pain in back for all of us who ever tried to put a website together. It increased the time and effort required to build a website at least two fold, by requiring web designers to come up with bug fixes and tricks to find a way around IE6's poor HTML and CSS rendering capabilities.
This resulted in higher costs for clients and sometimes poor user experience for the visitors. Indirectly IE6 wasted a lot of money for end users and companies by increasing the bandwidth required to load websites and thus increasing internet subscription fees. IE6 also managed to hold back the industry several years by not allowing website builders use advanced technologies and forcing them to rely on technology that IE6 supported.
But, all is forgiven, because Microsoft finally turned things around and released IE7 and IE8 in a relative quick succession bringing IE up to speed with modern browsers.
Today IE6's browser market-share is between 10-20% depending on the statistics you look at and it's still large enough for companies to require compatibility. This number was dropping by about 1% in the last 6 month. And hopefully with the update to be released in the coming weeks IE6 will drop below 5% within 2-3 month. At that point we can disregard IE6 altogether finally putting an end to the misery.
This is a time for a celebration! Everybody order something, it's on me! :)
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I'll have an Old Fashioned with three cherries. :p
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
In the coming years people will remember many world changing events..
Like Hitler's Nazi reign coming to an end, the end of the Bush regime and soon, people will celebrate the end of the worst web browser ever to be created!!!
I hope IE6 dies a very brief, but horrible death...
Thanx for the good news!
..is gonna tell the USGOVT and other skin-flint not-for-profit tight-wads to pay some IT admins for upgrading all the workstations? sheeesh. Now I will nott only be strapped down to IE6... but sites will quit "playing nice".
Someone important: Please blog the Pres!
Computers still on Windows 2000 will stay on IE6.
Our web stats show we've still got 7% of users on Windows 2000. And 30% use IE6.
So I can't ignore IE6 yet.
What? IE6 death? i always use IE6 for my finance activity..
.... and you people never even had it!
LOL
Safari! I spit *tugh! Tugh!* upon you!
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I am not Steve Ballmer pretending not to be me!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
I am not Steve Ballmer pretending not to be me!
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/04/14/10-cool-things-well-be-able-to-do-once-ie6-is-dead/
can i ask you a favor?
Please get rid of IE, all of them
Please!!! this will save us plenty of time!
Thanks
This, of course, doesn't force users, specifically corporations whose IT departments refuse to upgrade anything ever, to use the newer browsers. IE7 is a great improvement from IE6, but as a web programmer for Wilmington Design Company, many of our real estate clients work at companies where the only available browser on their in-house servers is IE6, so when they look at their web sites we create for them, they're using IE6, and we have to be prepared for that.
Ideally, with the release of IE8, Microsoft will pull the plug on the functionality of IE6, if that's even possible. At the least, they should force an upgrade to at least IE7. I mean, if they can force restart your computer automatically by having automatic updates turned on, they should be able to do that.
According to the Internet World Stats there are about 1,596,270,108 internet users. 5% of that is 79,813,505 or 25% of the US population. That's still a fairly large number of users you might be missing if you start disregarding IE6 at 5%.
If you keep your ears open, you'll see better.
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