re: IE6 being phased out at Google
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|It looks like IE6 isn't quite dead yet.
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Professional Web developers welcome the demise of any version of IE
--especially IE6.
It significantly increases their workload when they have to support IE
(as opposed to ALL of the other browsers, which are more standards-compliant).
Given the powerhouse that Google is, with their announcement, IE6 is officially dead.
It gives others carte blanche to follow suit.
|The solution:
|http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winme/1265416154
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Your link appears to be a circuitous reference to spoofing the User Agent String.
That is NOT a solution to developers *not* bending over backwards
to include additional code in the pages they serve up
as to **specifically** work around IE6's HORRIBLE compliance with standards.
Again, IE just sucks at rendering HTML/CSS because first Spyglass, Inc. then M$
built it in MANY MANY ways that are NOT compliant with W3C standards.[1]
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|Some web designers appear to be just as moronical
|as some of the developers at Microsoft and perhaps more so.
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While I won't argue with that generalization, and I agree that
MANY webmasters have no clue about how to PROPERLY sniff for browsers
(we see this all the time on the SeaMonkey newsgroup),
what you are talking about in no way describes what Google
--and before that, the Norwegian developers--are doing.
The Wikimedia link more clearly demonstrates the problem:
proper interpretation of W3C-compliant code by browsers.
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[1] Granted, some of the standards were adopted *after* IE6 was initially built,
but M$ never went back and corrected the brokenness.
Bad piled onto more bad, and now it is just a steaming pile that developers despise.
ALL versions of IE are shades of the same story.
(Again, the Wikimedia page shows their badness with actual numbers.)
...and the whole point of Internet Exploder was to marginalize the Web
(which it turns out M$ couldn't contol and therefore couldn't monopolize).
The existance of IE and M$'s attitude toward the Web set back the Web YEARS.
IE is yet another example of how M$ is a anti-competitive corp in steep decline.
The real silliness of IE is that it isn't even compliant WITH ITSELF.
(Like all of M$'s junk, version-to-version consistency is crap.)
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Some additional cogent comments from the front lines:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/28/2348256&threshold=4#14136520
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=238141&cid=19469619&threshold=2#19469619
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1215303&cid=27762267&threshold=5#27762267
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189027&cid=15571108&threshold=5#15571108
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