re: IE6 being phased out at Google
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 9:29 pm
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Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
Arminius wrote:
|The point was that when the OP tried "broken" IE6 he could access MySpace,
|when he used the "more standards-compliant" browser Firefox
|he was given the run around.
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...by the STUPID WEBMASTER of that site.
As I said, on the SeaMonkey newsgroup we see this all the time.
It isn't intentional; it's just a guy who doesn't know how to do his job properly.
http://google.com/search?q=define:User-Agent-String
Google's guys, however, are smarter that those bozos;
I assure you that they won't be using a kindergarten-level trick--even intentionally.
Here's what I suspect that Google
(and the others who DO know how to properly build a site) will be doing:
First, they will no longer be putting IE6-specific hacks into their pages
(which formerly made up for IE6's poor performance WRT interpreting good coding).
This saves the developers time and aggravation.
...and if Google does something similar to what M$ did with IE7 and IE8
(i.e. using instructions in the code that aren't understood by Win9x),
then Google's pages could conceivably make the pages so obtuse to IE6
that it will effectively lock out that ancient, kludgey PoS.
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