The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 4:43 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3936 messages posted) When IE6 users go to YouTube these days, they get a message warning them that support for that ancient PoS will soon be dropped and advising them to get a modern browser. http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/2015/youtubeie6.png http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/youtube-will-be-next-to-kiss-ie6-support-goodbye/ Web developers are tired of having to jump thru hoops to support that browser and its poor compliance with web standards. IE usage (all versions) is steadily dropping as browsers with better standards compliance ascend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#StatCounter Many tech-heavy sites show cumulative numbers below 50% for IE (even though Windows usage is put at ~88% these days). Even M$'s best/latest try is just pitiful--and, of course, IE6 stinks on ice: cache of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acid3#Trident_-_Internet_Explorer Notice how Opera, Chrome, and Safari score 100 percent. Firefox (scoring 95%) is on a feature freeze for its current version and the guys promise improvements with the release after that (3.6). Responses to this message: re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 6:46 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 4:43 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 6:46 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 8:36 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 5:41 am) M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (gewg_: Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 1:39 pm) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (Arminius: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 6:06 am) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (gewg_: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 11:24 am) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (Arminius: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 7:47 pm) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (gewg_: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 10:03 pm) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (Steve: Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 3:27 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Keith Stanier: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 6:04 am) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 7:22 am) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 12:26 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 4:00 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 7:01 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum