Goodbye IE6
July 30, 20096 comments
Some of you may be wondering why this blog looks very different from what it did just a day ago. Did I change the style sheet? Did I swap out templates?
No.
I got sick and tired of jumping through flaming hoops to support Internet Explorer 6, so I modified the templates to show the "printer-friendly" version of each page by default.
Don't blame me, blame Microsoft and/or your IT department for being too lazy to let you use Firefox, Chrome, Opera or even Internet Explorer 7.
If IE 6 actually made a good effort to implement web standards like every other browser in use right now (even IE 7 and IE 8), I wouldn't have to pull my hair out trying to figure how to make a stylesheet that looks right in every other browser while still working in IE 6.
No.
I got sick and tired of jumping through flaming hoops to support Internet Explorer 6, so I modified the templates to show the "printer-friendly" version of each page by default.
Don't blame me, blame Microsoft and/or your IT department for being too lazy to let you use Firefox, Chrome, Opera or even Internet Explorer 7.
If IE 6 actually made a good effort to implement web standards like every other browser in use right now (even IE 7 and IE 8), I wouldn't have to pull my hair out trying to figure how to make a stylesheet that looks right in every other browser while still working in IE 6.
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Why not just write your code in a way that supports more modern browsers?
You'd be doing the IE6 users a favor anyways, esp if they switched to a non MSFT product.
That's what I am doing. It looks the same to anyone but a IE 6 user. Your comment, however, indirectly inspired a far more in-your-face approach to dealing with IE6>:)
Just last week, my office finally migrated to Vista from XP. Under the old way, we were still under ie6. I can tell we have a new browser, but I can't tell which one. The "about" menu is gone. The migration cleared up all kinds of problems. But I still can't post comments at Vox Day's Site that include any line spacing.
For many companies, its that price tag that is what keeps them using 6. My last company still used IE6 because they didnt want to pay to upgrade software that simply wouldn't work with anything higher than IE6.
That's all well and good, but they ought to deploy both Firefox and IE 6 then. The main reason they don't is because they won't make their IT department manage both.
Looks fine to me! Of course I never use IE of any flavor, never did at work either. Netscape OG from Win3.1 - I was told it was "unsupported" but that was a rather meaningless statement because we didn't run any browser-based applications. That fad had not yet arrived.