Don't Stop Supporting IE6
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Don't Stop Supporting IE6
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Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#2All IE6 users should be blocked until they upgrade from any and every site. Zero tolerance of terrible browsers.
Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#3In fact, I believe we should support telnetters too. Hell, we should all have a help desk set up so that people that don't have a computer can call us up and interact with our web apps. Any good designer should be able to work within those constraints and still kick ass.
Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#4In fact, I believe we should support telnetters too. Hell, we should all have a help desk set up so that people that don't have a computer can call us up and interact with our web apps. Any good designer should be able to work within those constraints and still kick ass .
or even lynx for that matter!
Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#5In fact, I believe we should support telnetters too. Hell, we should all have a help desk set up so that people that don't have a computer can call us up and interact with our web apps. Any good designer should be able to work within those constraints and still kick ass .
or even lynx for that matter!
Anecdotally, I used Lynx just the other day to find a howto on fixing an issue with x.org I was having. Go lynx!
Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#6In fact, I believe we should support telnetters too. Hell, we should all have a help desk set up so that people that don't have a computer can call us up and interact with our web apps. Any good designer should be able to work within those constraints and still kick ass .
absolutely. and JAWS. oh wait, assistive tech. and accessibility don't fit into your [glib] analogy?
Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#7Cost: Extremely high
Benefit: Non-tech savy users can check out my tech business
Are IE6 users the kind of people that will buy your product, utilize your social media, read your content? If they haven't upgraded to something better yet and it's FREE to replace and has been for years, what are the odds that they will pay for your service.
Quality of eyeballs matters more than quantity of eyeballs, and I would say that the people running IE6 are rarely the target market for tech businesses.
Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#8What a crock. Not being a dick to people let them sit in their stupid comfortable IE6 for the last 8 years blissfully unaware that they were holding back advancements that would make their lives better. If I try to run new software on Windows 95, it will slap me in the face and tell me to slag off. The same should hold true for the web.
You go ahead and spend time delivering content to IE6 Toby, but I'm going to hop on the bandwagon that was far too late in coming and continue to tell these people to slag off until they upgrade.
Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#9The tone is overly-bombastic, but there's the seed of a good idea in here. Getting the a consistent look in FF3 and IE6 is Sisyphean; making a IE6-only layout much easier.
The author recommends dropping the whole "one app, one look" conceit and shuffling the dinosaurs to a dinosaur pen, with a simpler layout and the same content (you have been separating content and presentation, right?).
Re: Don't Stop Supporting IE6
#10In fact, I believe we should support telnetters too. Hell, we should all have a help desk set up so that people that don't have a computer can call us up and interact with our web apps. Any good designer should be able to work within those constraints and still kick ass .
Do the numbers. If you think the money you save in development costs is greater than the cost of pissing off or alienating IE6 users than go for it.
Just hope your competitors are as picky about their customers as you...