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Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by speiler »

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'd argue that they have the most incentive for the users to move off of ie5. That being said a message that tells users how to update would be much better then a partially rendered mess.

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by yuhong »

The funny thing is that MS supported IE 5.01 on Windows 2000 until 2010, unlike other versions of IE 5.x. If I remember correctly, even MS's own Windows Update v6 released in 2005 had problems displaying in that browser such that they had to put up a warning message.

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by ajross »

smoyer wrote: post #10
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.

And yet you still have a "command prompt" so that you can run your DOS programs as well as "compatibility mode" so that older applications can run on the post-XP systems.

That's backwards, though. MS wants to enable new systems to run old software, and they do this very well. The case in hand is running old software against new content, which they don't care about. The relevant comparison would be running IE10 against a cached copy of some website from 1999. I suspect that test would work rather well.

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by derleth »

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.

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by sliverstorm »

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 doubt Google "supports" ie5, their home page is just ultra-stripped down. Before they added that toolbar at the top, it was a text box and three or four links. Not much to mess up.

Re: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5

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Post by majke »

monsterix wrote: post #6

Believe it or not, in my previous company people were happy with IE4/5/6. I mean really happy with the blue icon in the middle of their screen. They did not want to move to IE7 even because it was simply "enough" for them. Happy married life, complete in all respects. And this was year 2011, not very far back. Even in China, they say, a significant percentage of population lives happily with IE6 or below. Don't know…

Yes, I'd like to see some chinese sites on the list.

For what I can test http://www.alibaba.com/ looks decent in IE6.

One in four browsers in china are IE6. Source: http://www.ie6countdown.com/

(can someone check baidu.com, qq.com, sina.com.cn, csdn.net, alibaba.com in IE5?)

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