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Re: IE6 is dead

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Post by dagga »

toxican wrote: post #34
crucialfelix wrote: post #10

meanwhile IE 5 is alive in Wichita Kansas. Error message received today: HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) because the old thing doesn't like URLs without a protocol: //ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js <WSGIRequest path:/ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js/

what's the benefit of excluding the http:? I'd never seen that prior to a few years ago when the jQuery links started doing it.

browser chooses http or https for you. Same as current page was requested.

Re: IE6 is dead

#42

Post by zeograd »

toxican wrote: post #34
crucialfelix wrote: post #10

meanwhile IE 5 is alive in Wichita Kansas. Error message received today: HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) because the old thing doesn't like URLs without a protocol: //ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js <WSGIRequest path:/ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js/

what's the benefit of excluding the http:? I'd never seen that prior to a few years ago when the jQuery links started doing it.

it will reuse the protocol of the current page, think http or https or spdy or whatever comes in the future.

Re: IE6 is dead

#43

Post by daveid »

toxican wrote: post #34
crucialfelix wrote: post #10

meanwhile IE 5 is alive in Wichita Kansas. Error message received today: HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) because the old thing doesn't like URLs without a protocol: //ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js <WSGIRequest path:/ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js/

what's the benefit of excluding the http:? I'd never seen that prior to a few years ago when the jQuery links started doing it.

The browser will load the resource from whatever protocol the current page is loaded from. So if the page is on https, the URL will be accessed as https, otherwise as http.

Re: IE6 is dead

#44

Post by WatchDog »

pjmlp wrote: post #15

It was replaced by IE 8.0, long live the king! :(

With the death of XP I would expect to see a usage drop, not only in IE6 but in IE7 and IE8 too.

IE8 is the latest version of IE that can be installed on XP, I would assume that most people using IE8 would be XP users.

If anyone has data on IE8 OS versions I would be interested.

Re: IE6 is dead

#45

Post by eli »

kijin wrote: post #40

As others have pointed out, IE6 isn't dead yet. Any person or business that is stubborn enough to use IE6 nowadays is probably also stubborn enough to keep using Windows XP for another year or ten. And I'm afraid a lot of us have been complicit in the unusually long life of this dreadful monster, as well as of its just-as-dreadful offspring, IE8. By "us" I mean everyone who has ever developed a website in the last fe…

> If we really want to kill IE[6-8], we need to do something more drastic, and do so with extreme prejudice. How about we all agree upon a certain date on which we intentionally break our websites and services for IE6 users?

Maybe for a blog, but I'm not telling 10%+ of my customers to piss off. If the cost of supporting them outweighs the value of their business then I won't support them any more. But I would never intentionally break a site for them.

Re: IE6 is dead

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Post by eli »

crucialfelix wrote: post #10

meanwhile IE 5 is alive in Wichita Kansas. Error message received today: HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) because the old thing doesn't like URLs without a protocol: //ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js <WSGIRequest path:/ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js/

You sure it's actually IE5 and not a bot? Lots of bots reuse old UAs to avoid detection

Re: IE6 is dead

#48

Post by noel82 »

There are at list other 3 version over the 6 that should be erased from the Earth surface. Just assuming someone would keep the last 2. Not me.

Re: IE6 is dead

#49

Post by wslh »

mattmanser wrote: post #33
owenversteeg wrote: post #12

Reports of its death are, from my experience, greatly exaggerated. It's still fairly widely used in businesses; as they say "if it's not broke, don't fix it." (Despite the fact that it is broken on many sites.) For anyone that wants to use a modern CSS framework that supports IE5.5+, check out Min ( http://minfwk.com ). Disclaimer: I made it.

I know this is a bit pedantic but it's definitely not 'fairly widely' or 'quite a lot' or 'some', there's a tiny, tiny percentage of businesses using it. Our UK website, not aimed at tech savvy, had 0.13% IE6 over the last 2 months compared to 0.32% the year before and when I last looked a significant proportion of that is bots and scrapers pretending to be browsers anyway. Half our traffic comes during the business…

there's a tiny, tiny percentage of businesses using it.

Not really. Probably many fortune 500 companies (I know several) continue to use IE6 and pay for virtualizing IE6. That's a significant amount of money in licenses and support. That's why companies such as VMware or Symantec have this feature in ThinApp and SWV.

Re: IE6 is dead

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Post by digitalengineer »

kijin wrote: post #40

As others have pointed out, IE6 isn't dead yet. Any person or business that is stubborn enough to use IE6 nowadays is probably also stubborn enough to keep using Windows XP for another year or ten. And I'm afraid a lot of us have been complicit in the unusually long life of this dreadful monster, as well as of its just-as-dreadful offspring, IE8. By "us" I mean everyone who has ever developed a website in the last fe…

Oh I'll fix you're IE bugs all right. But I make sure to show you you're gonna have to pay me twice for the privilege.
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