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Google Tells Users To Drop IE6
Kelly writes "Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome. Google recently removed Firefox from the Google Pack bundle, replaced it with Chrome, then added a direct download link for Chrome on Google and YouTube. Google's decision to list IE6 as an unsupported Gmail browser does not affect just consumers: Tens of thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses that run Google Apps hosted services may dump IE6 as well. What's especially interesting is the fact that Mozilla is picking up two out of three browser users that Microsoft surrenders."
If you use IE6, the terrorists win. Use our browser instead!
For best results, avoid doing stupid things.
.... a chair is breaking.
IE6 has been a curse on web developers for 8 years. Thats like 80 human years. It must die a swift death.
IE 7, Opera, and Firefox are all pretty similar from a normal end-user perspective
The gall! We are not normal end users!
That's right Microsoft, you heard me well.
It's the sound of nobody moving to Chrome.
Having an external web browser and internal one isn't so bad an idea. Our ridiculous CMS supports only FF2 and IE6, our bug tracker doesn't work in Webkit. So I have three browsers: one for work apps, one for development, one for surfing / docs. Keep crashes from ruining your day too.
"and is in fact suffering from an internet addiction. "
Internet Addiction users probably also suffer from sex addiction, money addiction and food addiction.
I personally suffer from addictophobia, so let me assure everyone that internet addiction is real. So all of you stop snickering out there. In fact, if you're reading slashdot, you're probably an internet addict. Here are the symptoms:
1) Constantly have a browser window up in your computer
2) Check your email more than once a day
3) Know browser shortcut keys. You know what cntl-D does, alt (or apple) backspace does, how to quit your browser without using the mouse.
4) Understand the importance of metatags
5) Knows how to spell URL
6) Users Ad Block Plus
This is a serious addiction.
Next week, we'll be covering work addiction (a tragic state where most of your waking hours are spent at a business doing stuff that some person tells you), water addiction (heart breaking... you require water every time your mouth gets dry. You end up in a condition known as "thirsty").
Finally, we'll be covering sleep addiction. Some of those addicts are known to spend 1/3 of their day in a completely motionless catatonic state. Tears are staining my browser as I type.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Sounds like a slogan for a brand of condoms.
Oh shit, I lied.
Oh shit, I lied again.
You lied twice so your pants must be on fire by now.
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
Everything using that hellhole of I rendering engine called Trident should be shot, quartered, fed to dogs, burned, buried, dug up, defiled, burned again, and spread to all four quadrants of the galaxy wherever there are evil aliens to extinguish. In that order.
I wish, users would experience the horrors that Trident puts us trough themselves. But for this, every major site would have to code to the standard and ignore all quirks and bugs in it. I bet, if the top 10 sites on the net would put a message on their front page, to make it clear, that the bugs that the users see, come from their Browser being a load of crap, IE would be gone in hours.
But they seem to like more, to rant all day long, that their users don't switch. Idiots.
I, for one, have sworn, never to write Trident workarounds again. Ever! Even if I am shot, quartered, fed to dogs, burned, buried, dug up, defiled, burned again, and spread to all four quadrants of the galaxy while still being alive in some way.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Designers? Developers? What are these? I thought websites were made out of magical pixie dust! There couldn't possible be people who really care about factors that affect their day to day job (such as browsers) .. they must all be "Internet addicts"!
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Trident: maim three web developers in a single strike!