The worst part of this is the comparison with other browsers.
http://saveie6.com/compare.php
This is just silly thing people can think of.
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Re: Save IE6
#22As far as I can tell there's no reason to get rid of IE6 unless you're going to also eliminate IE 7 and 8. Aside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent. Even IE9 doesn't support websockets or even half the HTML5 features of any other modern browser so for a modern web app you still need to drop IE support anyways.
I have to disagree.
While IE7 (or IE8 for that matter) is clearly very far from being perfect, it's massively superior to IE6. Not just "CSS differences". I mean IE7 fixed bugs like select elements being always on top or the URL fragment (the #hash part) being submitted to the HTTP server as part of the URL. These issues are major pains in the back. Supporting IE7 is an awful lot easier than supporting IE6.
Re: Save IE6
#23My favorite bits were:
"Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6" (listed as a goal of the site)
"Places Internet icon on desktop (blue e)" (listed as an IE6 feature)
"No need to install (it’s there already)" (another feature)
"Highly secure (has received lots of security updates)"
Re: Save IE6
#24As far as I can tell there's no reason to get rid of IE6 unless you're going to also eliminate IE 7 and 8. Aside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent. Even IE9 doesn't support websockets or even half the HTML5 features of any other modern browser so for a modern web app you still need to drop IE support anyways.
Aside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent.
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#25I don't see the point for this site. It's just misleading people into believing that ie is good. What is the point? So that the elite few can chuckle at the sarcasm? Waste of bandwidth.
Re: Save IE6
#26The worst part of this is the comparison with other browsers. http://saveie6.com/compare.php This is just silly thing people can think of.
The worst part of this is folks who don't get the joke.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
In tiny text in the page footer it reads, "The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010." Something tells me 2K names captured across an entire year will not convince MS to change course with their own http://ie6countdown.com/
And the text in the yellow box in the middle of the page says "SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke".
Banner blindess strikes again. I didn't even see the yellow box until I read this.
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#28The worst part of this is the comparison with other browsers. http://saveie6.com/compare.php This is just silly thing people can think of.
Pretty sure that is the best part.
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#29haha awesome.
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#30As far as I can tell there's no reason to get rid of IE6 unless you're going to also eliminate IE 7 and 8. Aside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent. Even IE9 doesn't support websockets or even half the HTML5 features of any other modern browser so for a modern web app you still need to drop IE support anyways.
I have to disagree. While IE7 (or IE8 for that matter) is clearly very far from being perfect, it's massively superior to IE6. Not just "CSS differences". I mean IE7 fixed bugs like select elements being always on top or the URL fragment (the #hash part) being submitted to the HTTP server as part of the URL. These issues are major pains in the back. Supporting IE7 is an awful lot easier than supporting IE6.
The things you have mentioned are rather trivial in the overall picture and really not a good enough reason to support IE7 but not IE6. The JavaScript engines are nearly identical and the broad set of technologies are the same.
For example, I consider not supporting SVG 10 years after standarization a major probleam. And only IE9 addressed that issue.