I don't know how to IE6
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I don't know how to IE6
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Re: I don't know how to IE6
#2"Now’s the time. Someone needs to start the ball rolling and just say no."
Lots of us say no to supporting IE6 whenever we can, the problem is the person paying our salaries says we will.
But regardless of that, the sad truth is that developers aren't the ones preventing a full scale cutoff of IE6, it's our users. If the people you are making things for use IE6 then you have to support them.
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#3Why did you have the impression a B.S. in CompSci would teach you about legacy browser support?
I dunno, the first few weeks of my internship I had to do the same thing. If nothing else it was a great way to learn about what the company did by doing low-level grunt work. However I'd really recommend that if this is all you'll be doing for the duration of the internship, maybe look for something else.
Otherwise be thankful that you'll eventually have the flexibility to choose a career path that doesn't require you to maintain compliance with IE6.
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#4When I was a kid we had to develop websites without firebug/inspector, in IE6, both ways.
Wait, I'm still a kid.
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#5Pretty much nobody supports IE6 anymore. I know how to IE6, like most devs a little older than the author. I just choose not to. Because I can.
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#6"Now’s the time. Someone needs to start the ball rolling and just say no." Lots of us say no to supporting IE6 whenever we can, the problem is the person paying our salaries says we will. But regardless of that, the sad truth is that developers aren't the ones preventing a full scale cutoff of IE6, it's our users. If the people you are making things for use IE6 then you have to support them.
Developers need to start keeping exceedingly careful track of exactly how much time they spend fighting with IE6 so they can go to the person footing the bill and say "this is how much money you've wasted on a completely obsolete technology".
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#7"make it sure that it works on ie6" is the worst line you can hear at work. especially if you're developing a web app. even global websites like fb don't support ie6 anymore.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp - IE6 has 2.6%, I don't really see a point in spending hours optimizing stuff for it.
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#8"Now’s the time. Someone needs to start the ball rolling and just say no." Lots of us say no to supporting IE6 whenever we can, the problem is the person paying our salaries says we will. But regardless of that, the sad truth is that developers aren't the ones preventing a full scale cutoff of IE6, it's our users. If the people you are making things for use IE6 then you have to support them.
How much of the revenue comes from IE6 browsers? If it's more than the cost support it/ less drop it... My guess, it's less revenue then cost and that by this time next year we can say the same for IE7.
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#9I hate web articles that don't have a publish date. This one would seem like a year and a half old.
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#10http://www.ie6countdown.com/ "We should stop supporting IE6"
"What percentage of people use IE6?"
"10%"
"Hmm, 10% sounds like a lot of people ... let's support it!"