Comments on: Movement in the death of old browsers and IE 6 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6 blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Webmaster http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6/comment-page-1#comment-39234 Webmaster Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:58:03 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6#comment-39234 Only Firefox and IE6. Only Firefox and IE6.

]]> By: SEO技术 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6/comment-page-1#comment-38935 SEO技术 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:16:17 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6#comment-38935 I support you ! AND I LIKE IE6 I support you ! AND I LIKE IE6

]]> By: tracle http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6/comment-page-1#comment-38877 tracle Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:19:31 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6#comment-38877 Yeah, some polite way of suggesting to upgrade to some these-day browser and not being a “dinosaur” would make sense. I like the idea.http://yahooclub.zhan.cn.yahoo.com/ Yeah, some polite way of suggesting to upgrade to some these-day browser and not being a “dinosaur” would make sense. I like the idea.http://yahooclub.zhan.cn.yahoo.com/

]]> By: Michael http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6/comment-page-1#comment-38822 Michael Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:54:16 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6#comment-38822 >>Unfortunately it’s not always so black-and-white. Our users were wiiling to upgrade to IE7. The issue was that they were all using Windows2K machines and IE7 is not even available for that platform. Imagine telling the customer to reinstall their OS because so-and-so web application won’t work on the existing one! ;-) Yeah, that's an interesting point. But I think we're at a tipping point where more and more sites will abandon IE6, so what will those people do? FF3 works well on old systems. Here are its requirements... Windows Operating Systems * Windows 2000 * Windows XP * Windows Server 2003 * Windows Vista Minimum Hardware * Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater) * 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater) * 52 MB hard drive space It may be that people who really need to keep IE6 are going to have to add a non-Microsoft browser like FF3 to be able to browse the web at large in a couple years. Especially if Microsoft has abandoned W2k users by making IE7 and IE8 have too high of a requirement spec. >>Unfortunately it’s not always so black-and-white. Our users were wiiling to upgrade to IE7. The issue was that they were all using Windows2K machines and IE7 is not even available for that platform. Imagine telling the customer to reinstall their OS because so-and-so web application won’t work on the existing one! ;-)

Yeah, that’s an interesting point. But I think we’re at a tipping point where more and more sites will abandon IE6, so what will those people do?

FF3 works well on old systems. Here are its requirements…

Windows
Operating Systems

* Windows 2000
* Windows XP
* Windows Server 2003
* Windows Vista

Minimum Hardware

* Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
* 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
* 52 MB hard drive space

It may be that people who really need to keep IE6 are going to have to add a non-Microsoft browser like FF3 to be able to browse the web at large in a couple years. Especially if Microsoft has abandoned W2k users by making IE7 and IE8 have too high of a requirement spec.

]]> By: Vikas Sasidharan http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6/comment-page-1#comment-38820 Vikas Sasidharan Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:07:35 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6#comment-38820 Unfortunately it's not always so black-and-white. Our users were wiiling to upgrade to IE7. The issue was that they were all using Windows2K machines and IE7 is not even available for that platform. Imagine telling the customer to reinstall their OS because so-and-so web application won't work on the existing one! ;-) Unfortunately it’s not always so black-and-white. Our users were wiiling to upgrade to IE7. The issue was that they were all using Windows2K machines and IE7 is not even available for that platform. Imagine telling the customer to reinstall their OS because so-and-so web application won’t work on the existing one! ;-)

]]> By: Tom http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6/comment-page-1#comment-38819 Tom Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:54:27 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6#comment-38819 We don't support IE6, pretty much only because it doesn't support alpha channel PNGs without ridiculous workarounds that consume large amounts of resources. Even if IE6 was a good browser for it's time, I simply don't understand the decision not to support alpha channel PNGs by default. Clearly they knew such PNGs existed because there was *some* way to get it them to display correctly. We don’t support IE6, pretty much only because it doesn’t support alpha channel PNGs without ridiculous workarounds that consume large amounts of resources.

Even if IE6 was a good browser for it’s time, I simply don’t understand the decision not to support alpha channel PNGs by default. Clearly they knew such PNGs existed because there was *some* way to get it them to display correctly.

]]> By: funtomas http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6/comment-page-1#comment-38818 funtomas Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:39:49 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6#comment-38818 Yeah, some polite way of suggesting to upgrade to some these-day browser and not being a "dinosaur" would make sense. I like the idea. Yeah, some polite way of suggesting to upgrade to some these-day browser and not being a “dinosaur” would make sense. I like the idea.

]]> By: Michael http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6/comment-page-1#comment-38815 Michael Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:22:37 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/movement-in-the-death-of-old-browsers-and-ie-6#comment-38815 My local newspaper gave up on IE6. You go there and it's just broken. People call and whine and they are told, "we no longer support IE6. Upgrade to IE7." Makes me feel like a nice guy if I gently guide them to a better browser, rather than just silently failing on them. My local newspaper gave up on IE6. You go there and it’s just broken. People call and whine and they are told, “we no longer support IE6. Upgrade to IE7.”

Makes me feel like a nice guy if I gently guide them to a better browser, rather than just silently failing on them.

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