You should click to download it!
I think that was the funniest part of the site, thank you for pointing it out. I was afraid it might actually download IE6 at first...
Save IE6
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Re: Save IE6
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
And XHTML too.
Re: Save IE6
#53Wow! Digg level posting on HN, thought that was at least a six+ months off.
Re: Save IE6
#54I laughed out loud... "You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using opera, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition."
Re: Save IE6
#55As 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.
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Re: Save IE6
#56As 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.
Also, JavaScript performance has improved in the newer versions of IE. I just ran into a situation where some DOM manipulation using jQuery was taking 35 seconds to complete in IE6, but took less than a second in IE8.
I ended up spending about four hours coming up with a bunch of optimizations that made it perform acceptably in IE6. I suppose you could argue that optimized code is a good thing, but personally I would have rather have spend that time working on something else.
Re: Save IE6
#57I laughed out loud... "You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using opera, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition."
You have been mislead by a vocal minority and are using chrome, which is clearly an inferior web browser to IE6. Please switch to IE6 and sign our petition.
Re: Save IE6
#58I love how they have all of those quotes of people who use IE6... they all sound like idiots.
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#59I was finding it hilarious until I got to: "SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke by the uptime monitoring service Pingdom. Due to the tremendous interest it has received we have decided to keep this site up and running. Thanks everyone for the great feedback and for enjoying the irony!" Perhaps it's because I'm British (we Brits can be a little particular about humour, especially irony), but I don't t…
> I don't think a joke like that should explicitly identify itself as such.
Ideally, you'd be right. The problem is that so many people also don't think a joke should explicitly identify itself by being funny.
Re: Save IE6
#60My 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)"
> "Get the W3C standard changed to fit IE6" (listed as a goal of the site)
Please correct me if I got it wrong, but it seems HTML 5 is a bit similar -- ``let's make a list of features our sponsors support''. Only the sponsor base is wider.