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Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die

Posted by timothy on from the when-undead-is-a-compliment dept.

caffeinejolt writes "Despite all the hype surrounding new browsers being released pushing the limits of what can be done on the Web, Firefox 3 has only this past month overtaken IE6. Furthermore, if you take the previous report and snap on the Corporate America filter, IE6 rules the roost and shows no signs of leaving anytime soon. Sorry web developers, for those of you who thought the ugly hacks would soon be over, it appears they will linger on for quite a bit — especially if you develop for business sites."

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  1. Corporate users and backward compatibility by javacowboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The reason IE 6 won't die is intranet applications that were coded specifically for IE 6 that corporations haven't bothered to make cross-browser. IE 7 (and presumably IE 8) breaks a lot of those sites.

    At my current job, we're not allowed to install IE 7 or 8, and don't have the administrator rights to do it. It sucks because as a web developer, I'd like nothing better than to see IE 6 die a quick death.

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  2. in-house apps by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Informative

    IT departments have no budgets right now. Testing all the in-house apps with IE8 would cost money. Even telling people to press the "render in IE6 mode" button would be quite expensive in terms of calls. So they're just blocking the update.

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  3. Re:As Someone Who Has to Support IE6 at Work ... by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're so cheap that you can't download a FREE browser to see the web, fuck ye!

    The excuse: "I can download a web browser for free, but I can't install it because I'm not in the Administrators group."

  4. Re:/. - are you listening? by mwigmani · · Score: 5, Informative

    Slashdot doesn't render properly in Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5 beta4 either - the comment titles and scores aren't displayed anymore

    The comment titles and scores are being rendered (highlight the page with ctrl-a), the problem is with the CSS - the background image that runs the length of the div element containing the title is being overwritten. This:

    .comment div.title { background:#044 url("//c.fsdn.com/sd/article-title-bg.png") repeat-x left top; }

    get's overwritten by this (appears further down the document):

    .comment div.title { background:#fff!important; }

    You'll notice the issue doesn't occur on some of the alternative stylesheets (Ask Slashdot, YRO, etc). In the meantime, you can hit 'change' in the threshold form to set things straight.

  5. Re:/. - are you listening? by Rocketship+Underpant · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not to mention that it's 2009, but Slashdot can't even be bothered to work with Unicode yet.
    Here is an em-dash: â"
    Here is some Japanese: æ--¥æoeèzãã
    See?

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