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Offline hyperlinked

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« on: Thu, 04 March 2010, 17:36:16 »
Rumor has it that IE6 is dead. I hope they shoot it out of the solar system on a space probe just to be sure.

If you need to mourn or spit on its coffin, pay your (dis)respects here:
http://ie6funeral.com/
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« Reply #1 on: Thu, 04 March 2010, 17:52:38 »
While I find it sad that it takes a company of that size to finally get rid off it, I am just glad it's gone. If I hate it so much, I just stand back in awe at the responses from WebDev's when asked about support for it. Asking an old co-worker about anything to do with IE, and 6 especially was akin to setting off C4 in an enclosed space... clear the blast zone!

It is responsible for my best "WTF?" look from a client though... (When asked what I thought about IE6 (IE8 had just launched), I responded with "If it was the last browser in the word, and was on fire, I wouldn't waste my piss on it"). Apparently, they said I have "Geek Issues" to work out when talking with the boss afterwards. Made my day.
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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 04 March 2010, 18:44:54 »
IE6 is a very good browser for playing on-line games.
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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 04 March 2010, 20:17:32 »
Good riddance.
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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 04 March 2010, 20:25:52 »
IE6 works good enough for me, at least it was better than IE5.  As a matter of fact, I am installing IE6 on this machine I am using right now.  Its not going to be my main web browser, I use good old Mozilla.  I will use IE6 for online games that require Java.
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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 04 March 2010, 23:12:40 »
We'll stuff IE6's users into a hole in the ground along with their favorite browser.

I like this memorial:
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I just can't express how much(trouble) this guy meant to me and all of my web developer friends.
We really need to make a big monument for him on top of his tomb.(A really big and heavy one. To make sure he never ever crawls out of there again)
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« Reply #6 on: Fri, 05 March 2010, 05:00:05 »
I'm not sure how quickly it's going to die... there seem to be a lot of silly people who cling to it in enterprise scenarios and whatnot.

Hopefully, the increasing popularity of Windows 7, the EU ballot screen and that whole Google hacking mess which lead to them dropping support for it from stufflike Gmail and Youtube will help to kill it off.
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Offline Mr.6502

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« Reply #7 on: Fri, 05 March 2010, 18:20:37 »
Microsoft's IE team was kind enough to send flowers.
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« Reply #8 on: Fri, 05 March 2010, 19:02:08 »
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IE6 works good enough for me, at least it was better than IE5.  As a matter of fact, I am installing IE6 on this machine I am using right now.  Its not going to be my main web browser, I use good old Mozilla.  I will use IE6 for online games that require Java.

I agree, IE6 is OK with me although I use Mozilla Firefox much more.
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« Reply #9 on: Fri, 05 March 2010, 20:26:08 »
Now the healing can begin, and we can start making the web beautiful with solid standards that browsers will follow.

Oh wait... :P
I'm just glad that, when the time comes and IE6 is less than 2% of traffic on my company's website, that I can start using CSS 2.1 selectors, and things like "CSS Performance" can actually start being a concern. Woohoo!
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« Reply #10 on: Sat, 06 March 2010, 08:08:13 »
He's dead, Jim.

't was about time.
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« Reply #11 on: Sat, 06 March 2010, 14:48:32 »
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I agree, IE6 is OK with me although I use Mozilla Firefox much more.


http://www.saveie6.com/
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« Reply #12 on: Sat, 06 March 2010, 14:50:37 »
Quote from: webwit;162074
http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/


Very cool script, but at 1900 elements on the homepage of my website, the Javascript parses through every small crevice of the DOM tree and rebuilds complex selectors by jumping through children and parents. With performance that low, might as well not even support IE6 at all when it takes 15+ seconds for the page to be interactive.

I would rather add a little additional markup then have Javascript climb through the page and halting an experience. Not the best method, but when supporting IE6, there is no cure-all
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« Reply #13 on: Sat, 06 March 2010, 15:11:55 »
A friend of mine who's Polish pronounces Opera in such a way that it sounds like Oprah. Was rather funny the first few times he said it.
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Offline Mr.6502

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« Reply #14 on: Sat, 06 March 2010, 15:12:39 »
Quote from: Xuan;162193
http://www.saveie6.com/


Ha, I love the quiz to figure out if you are going to use IE6 in the proper way.
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« Reply #15 on: Fri, 12 March 2010, 12:52:25 »
I remember reading somewhere - "DEC was a company founded and run by Engineers - they could make great products, but had no clue how to market or support them"
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« Reply #16 on: Fri, 12 March 2010, 18:30:44 »
I loved AltaVista. I had a hard time moving to Google from AV.
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« Reply #17 on: Fri, 12 March 2010, 20:13:46 »
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I remember reading somewhere - "DEC was a company founded and run by Engineers - they could make great products, but had no clue how to market or support them"


Their products were definitely of very good quality. This DEC monitor I am using now has a lot of miles on it and still works just about as good as it did when it came out of the factory almost two decades ago!
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« Reply #18 on: Fri, 12 March 2010, 22:39:13 »
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I liked AltaVista.  I felt so nerdy using it.


I had to say I was more of an Infoseek man.
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« Reply #19 on: Sat, 13 March 2010, 03:09:53 »
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Their products were definitely of very good quality. This DEC monitor I am using now has a lot of miles on it and still works just about as good as it did when it came out of the factory almost two decades ago!

They probably didn't even make that monitor, and instead subcontracted it to whichever Chinese sweatshop makes all the other monitors. Either way, given the amazing stuff they made, judging DEC by their Wintel computers is like judging IBM keyboards by one of these -



I used to have one of those many moons ago, heh.
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« Reply #20 on: Sat, 13 March 2010, 06:59:56 »
Again, there was nothing special about DEC PCs, they were like IBM PCs after the PS/2 line - manufacture loads of cheap stuff and sell it at a premium because your company has a reputation. See how well that worked out for both parties involved...
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