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Re: IE6 is dead

#11

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/

This month alone, my site hat 3 visits each by IE 2 and IE 3, 14 by Firefox 1.5 and 11 by Netscape 4.0...

Re: IE6 is dead

#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.

Re: IE6 is dead

#13
post #5

Reports of IE6's death are greatly exaggerated.

We run a SAAS app. We recently saw IE4 in our logs. Not a single one of our customers has upgraded past IE8. IE6 is alive and well in many large companies.

Consider the possibility that someone was playing with old browsers.

Re: IE6 is dead

#14
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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it is off XP life support now.

XP has life support turned off, however, it'll still survive for a few years despite that. The end of MS support doesn't seem to have caused any mass migrations off of windows XP, and it will be a long time until it's less popular than windows 8.

Yes, I'm afraid reports of IE's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Re: IE6 is dead

#16

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.

Yes, my company precisely does work in running IE6 in newer operating systems such as Windows 7. A case study of why and how we helped Symantec in this area is here http://blog.nektra.com/main/2014/02/12/nektra-escalation-sup...

Re: IE6 is dead

#17
post #13
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We run a SAAS app. We recently saw IE4 in our logs. Not a single one of our customers has upgraded past IE8. IE6 is alive and well in many large companies.

Consider the possibility that someone was playing with old browsers.

I joined a new project where IE 8 is the lowest required supported browser.

Re: IE6 is dead

#18
post #14
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

XP has life support turned off, however, it'll still survive for a few years despite that. The end of MS support doesn't seem to have caused any mass migrations off of windows XP, and it will be a long time until it's less popular than windows 8.

Yes, I'm afraid reports of IE's death have been greatly exaggerated.

Third time's the charm?

Re: IE6 is dead

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post #7
post #3

it was unconscious for quite a while, so why did it die today?

Because it is off XP life support now.

The Dutch government recently signed a contact to have MS keep supporting XP with security updates, so it's not dead at all.
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