August 28, 200817 yr At least it's an IE-friendly site and the "upgrade or die, bee-atches" sign is pretty.
August 28, 200817 yr This is a pipe dream, On one hand we have companies that have yet to upgrade the browsers to ie7, making it so we still have to test our websites with ie6. With all this testing and the browser still being installed it is furthering the need to build for it. The latest browser stats don't good either http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
August 28, 200817 yr The Royal Mail business website only works in IE6. (I.e. where companies with accounts can log in and organise all their postage) It's going to take a long time to die...but I really, really want it to!
August 28, 200817 yr I wish Governments would actually ban MS products which break antitrust laws, rather than just slapping them with pocket-money fines. Nice revenue for the government, sucky situation for the entire world as MS dumbs down the public. It is Microsoft's fault that most people can't do basic things on a computer It is Microsoft's fault that most people think IE IS the Internet It is Microsoft's fault that most people don't understand file systems (Can't find "My Documents" from the C:/ drive). If MS hadn't dumbed it's OS down, people would have had to learn the fundamentals. IT would be a standardised, monitored, professionalised industry (think Corgi IT engineers). People would still have computers in their homes. The internet would still be a doddle for everyone (in fact easier, IE wouldn't be holding us all back). There are a lot of things MS does do well, but they stretch themselves too thinly and do far too much dumbing down. If MS wasn't trying to create a media player, deal with IE8 and actually focused on it's OS, it might be worth the money. That's my opinion anyway. DOWN WITH IE6!!!!
August 28, 200817 yr I think I've made my feelings about IE and Micro$haft all too clear on the forum already, so I won't go on a tirade now. What I did notice though was on a thread a couple of weeks ago, someone made a typo (I assumed it was a typo) and wrote 'Internet Exploder' I propose that this should now become the forum standard label for referring to this abomination.
August 28, 200817 yr I wish Governments would actually ban MS products which break antitrust laws, rather than just slapping them with pocket-money fines. Nice revenue for the government, sucky situation for the entire world as MS dumbs down the public. It is Microsoft's fault that most people can't do basic things on a computer It is Microsoft's fault that most people think IE IS the Internet It is Microsoft's fault that most people don't understand file systems (Can't find "My Documents" from the C:/ drive). If MS hadn't dumbed it's OS down, people would have had to learn the fundamentals. IT would be a standardised, monitored, professionalised industry (think Corgi IT engineers). People would still have computers in their homes. The internet would still be a doddle for everyone (in fact easier, IE wouldn't be holding us all back). There are a lot of things MS does do well, but they stretch themselves too thinly and do far too much dumbing down. If MS wasn't trying to create a media player, deal with IE8 and actually focused on it's OS, it might be worth the money. That's my opinion anyway. DOWN WITH IE6!!!! Totally Agree with you!! We need a global scare campaign - "IE6 is funded by Al Quieda - upgrade now!" ROFL!
February 20, 200917 yr i hate IE6 it all screw up my design. iT always uses hacks hacks hacks hacks... And i dont want it to implement it anymore..
February 20, 200917 yr In The Register yesterday: Norway Mobilizes Against IE6 This seems to be getting topical again...
February 23, 200917 yr the problem is. How can we kill the ie6? Alert people (not with a pop-up window!) that they are using an outdated browser and offer them alternative browsers. <browser src="ie6" alt="Firefox, Opera, Safari" />
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