Why ppl vote for that on HN?
Save IE6
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Re: Save IE6
#12I can't believe that 2,047 signed the petition
In tiny text in the page footer it reads, "The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010." Something tells me 2K names captured across an entire year will not convince MS to change course with their own http://ie6countdown.com/
And the text in the yellow box in the middle of the page says "SaveIE6.com was put together as an April Fool’s joke".
Re: Save IE6
#13You should click to download it!
Re: Save IE6
#14Try downloading it
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#15I love it!
Re: Save IE6
#16As far as I can tell there's no reason to get rid of IE6 unless you're going to also eliminate IE 7 and 8. Aside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent. Even IE9 doesn't support websockets or even half the HTML5 features of any other modern browser so for a modern web app you still need to drop IE support anyways.
Re: Save IE6
#17> I love how you can only open one tab at a time, thus focusing your efforts. Multi-tab browsing is the devil! Just seeing someone refer to IE6 as "tabbed", albeit single-tabbed, made me realize how far we've come.
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Re: Save IE6
#18Haha, what an amazing joke. Felt for it.
Re: Save IE6
#19As far as I can tell there's no reason to get rid of IE6 unless you're going to also eliminate IE 7 and 8. Aside from CSS differences they are largely equivalent. Even IE9 doesn't support websockets or even half the HTML5 features of any other modern browser so for a modern web app you still need to drop IE support anyways.
One less browser to tweak and test. If you look at the numbers, IE7 is going away fast. That leaves IE8 and IE9.
I think writing for a cross section of IE9, and the more modern browsers (FF,Chrome, Opera), and some specialized code for IE8 where necessary, is a big improvement.
Re: Save IE6
#20The only way this could be funnier is if everything was misaligned and padded funny, or objects were cutoff from the IE6 quirky box model.