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Re: IE 6 Update

#31

Post by jasonkester » Sun, Apr 19, 2009, 9:51 AM UTC

Let's face it: Building web sites is hard.

For some reason every new generation of developers comes out expecting that to change, but it's not going to. There will always be browsers going out of life that you need to support. That's just the way it works.

And yes, there will always be people like this author whining about it and blaming his users for the his problem. That's the wrong way to go.

If you build web applications, you need to suck it up and support all the browsers out there. Yes, it's harder and yes, you need to use a common subset of all the available tools.

It's been this way since 1995. It's not going to change. Please stop complaining about it.

Re: IE 6 Update

#32

Post by foobar2k » Sun, Apr 19, 2009, 1:02 PM UTC

this is really sneaky. i like it

Re: IE 6 Update

#33

Post by IanOzsvald » Sun, Apr 19, 2009, 5:20 PM UTC

To see ie6update in action watch this 3 minute screencast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TclHo_F7rsE

I wanted a demo but didn't have IE6 to hand, in the end I installed ies4linux -> Wine -> Jaunty RC and I figured that others might want to see it in action so I sat up until 2.30am making the screencast.

Nick says he'll integrate it into their blog shortly, but in the meantime...

Re: IE 6 Update

#34

Post by duskwuff » Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 7:09 AM UTC

CalmQuiet wrote: post #21

Somewhat off-topic, but... Is it not a little strange that neither the demo nor the IE-8 Home page does any checking for non-applicable conditions. For example the fact that I'm browsing with Safari(OS X)? [ Whereas visiting Mozilla always seems to know what downloads it ought to offer. ]

Er, the demo is intentionally shown to all browsers on clicking the "demo" link. Otherwise you'd have to get IE6 running to test it out, which would suck.