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Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by ultimoo »

derleth wrote: post #15

It would be interesting to know how those pages function in IE5. Does anything they do rely on JS IE5 doesn't understand? CSS IE5 can't process? eBay, Amazon, and Facebook especially might become worthless even though it looks like they render in a usable fashion.

Although I am not certain about it, the way browsers are expected to handle encryption may have also changed in 14 years -- making payment gateways on these websites wither unusable or risky.

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by stfu »

sharkweek wrote: post #19

I bet Hacker News would look fantastic in IE5, tables and all

And rightfully so!

I would love to see more websites offering a no-frills version for older browsers, mobile browsers, smaller screens, etc.

Once I know that a site provides a specific value to me I really don't care about design and usability anymore.

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by ultimoo »

I like how wikipedia presents its contents in a usable way on IE5.

This is awesome and most likely a part of their mission to make knowledge as accessible as possible. I have seen old, low-end donated PCs that are rife in elementary education in rural India and I'm sure in other developing countries as well. I am sure that these machines will be able to render wikipedia just fine!

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by olegbl »

pinko wrote: post #2

You've got to appreciate the irony of microsoft.com being among the worst of the ten (if not the very worst) to render.

I think it makes sense. They have the most incentive for people to stop using their outdated product (it's hard restoring the image of software like IE).

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by blktiger »

infinita740 wrote: post #7

Look way more decent than I thought, google is apparently the only one really supporting ie5 as their interface seems absolutely unchanged. Also noticed the irony of microsoft.com being the worst, maybe it shows that the company wants to move forward, maybe it's just lazyness/rationalisation. Also it's kind of abvious that amazon works well, they don't want to lose potentials customers (maybe same for google)

I absolutely love the irony there. Then again, I can't really knock them for not making their website work on IE 5 since they don't support that browser any more.

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by bicknergseng »

derleth wrote: post #15

It would be interesting to know how those pages function in IE5. Does anything they do rely on JS IE5 doesn't understand? CSS IE5 can't process? eBay, Amazon, and Facebook especially might become worthless even though it looks like they render in a usable fashion.

IE5 had XHR, but didn't have native JSON support and a number of other features. I think it was on ECMA 1 or 2 until IE5.5, which had 3.

I wager no one uses JSON shims anymore. I don't really know what would happen when you try to use JSON in ECMA 1 or 2.

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