September 8, 200916 yr Is it wise practise not to aim for completely identical sites accross all the browsers and just deliver a special style-sheet for IE6 which 'does the job' ie avoids major graphical upsets?
September 8, 200916 yr Personally, i don't (want to) waste my time with styling an another sheet for IE6. But sadly, yes we have to stick with ie6 due to this stats globalstats. Some of CSS frameworks like blueprint, bluetrip already providing ie6 fix CSS, so usually these sheets fixing major problems and if doesn't, some little editing on them works like a magic. In these terms, we have to unite and force MS to make a real browser...
September 9, 200916 yr I'm new to web design, so I'm not aware of the particular annoyances of IE6 (although I understand that it's a nightmare). Has there ever been a unified push to get people to upgrade to a better browser? If enough sites displayed a banner "please upgrade your old software" instead of content, wouldn't people be forced into it?
September 9, 200916 yr That's easier said than done grizzly. There are things like this out there, however the problem is, there's hundreds of companies in the UK alone that have IE6 installed as the only browsers on their computer systems, and don't allow users (staff) to install new software. I think we need to get the government involved to totally eradicate IE6!
September 9, 200916 yr Author I'm new to web design, so I'm not aware of the particular annoyances of IE6 (although I understand that it's a nightmare). Has there ever been a unified push to get people to upgrade to a better browser? If enough sites displayed a banner "please upgrade your old software" instead of content, wouldn't people be forced into it? its possible grizzly (there's a few ways I think ) to use a different stylesheet for whatever browser is viewing a particular page so an IE6 site visitor gets a different viewing experience to a firefox user getting a site to appear identical in ffox and IE6 would therefore be quite a time consuming/expensive process I'm questioning if its worth that hassle or just developing an IE6 Styleshhet that just looks ok
September 9, 200916 yr It depends on what kind of site your creating and your target audience I suppose. Unfortunately most sites have a majority of IE 6 & 7 users coming to their site so they have to create it to work in all browsers. I'd like to see some stats for this forum, see just how many people use IE & Firefox seen as most people here are web designers who worship FF
September 9, 200916 yr Personally, i don't (want to) waste my time with styling an another sheet for IE6. But sadly, yes we have to stick with ie6 due to this stats globalstats. Some of CSS frameworks like blueprint, bluetrip already providing ie6 fix CSS, so usually these sheets fixing major problems and if doesn't, some little editing on them works like a magic. In these terms, we have to unite and force MS to make a real browser... What if that 14.04% of IE6 users is just web developers trying to get their websites to work
September 9, 200916 yr What if that 14.04% of IE6 users is just web developers trying to get their websites to work lol
September 9, 200916 yr What if that 14.04% of IE6 users is just web developers trying to get their websites to work Oh. My. God. That's a fantastic idea. Right, no longer supporting IE6.
September 9, 200916 yr looks like a good time to get my fave piccy out, as now seen on youtube: It's likely that I'm going to use a similar thing for my website. I might create an 'IE-Safe' page so that people with IE6 or lower would see a website, but one that's just a single, simple page with a white background and a contact form (with all information, obviously).
September 9, 200916 yr Some of my friends still use IE6 in developing websites. ___________________ Targeted Traffic Exchange with $10 voucher
September 9, 200916 yr maybe we're all going about this backwards, we should build the website for IE6, then use a separate css for firefox
September 9, 200916 yr I'd rather die than do that. Internet Explorer 6 is merely a hinderance to progress.
September 9, 200916 yr What if that 14.04% of IE6 users is just web developers trying to get their websites to work Then we keep satisfied ourself ie6 wise. Really we need something that official "at least looks like official" for get rid of it. Posts in this topic reminds me that PHP5 campaign, they stated PHP4 no longer supported and upgrade/migrate to PHP5. ie6 needs something like that. If you ask why, because problem is customers, not your css skills neither how much that you care about ie6. Long time ago that i easily explained to my customers about PHP migration, showed website and i told them "neither i will support PHP4". All you know customer relations is one hard job and i still have some customers they are using ie6 something like tillwilly wrote above. Currently i cant say them "i don't support ie6" as an individual. But i just noticed that youtube giving warnings to ie6 users, thanks Stevo, youtube is doing very good job about this. So what we need is a website, that includes most common country languages may be all, describing the problem that can be easily perceptible by all level of web users, looks like at least something official and supported ( putting youtube warning on the page, etc... ), yes my idea is a campaign for get rid of ie6. Im up for this, let's save future generations
September 19, 200916 yr looks like a good time to get my fave piccy out, as now seen on youtube: YESS!! YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye
September 25, 200916 yr Please stop supporting IE6 in personal projects. Display a notification to upgrade! IE6 is holding the web back, time to put a stop to this nonsense.
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