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Funeral Being Held Today For IE6
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."
Decapitate, stake through the heart, and bury underneath a crossroads, just to make sure it won't come back.
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.
This is all wishful thinking. Google ending support will not be the "final nail" in the proverbial coffin. IE 6 will continue to live in the corporate world (my own included unfortunately) for many years to come. This may be the first step, but its dancing before the music has started in my opinion.
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What's wrong with these people?
Boss: "Hey, why did we have a 20% drop in revenue this quarter?"
Sales Guy: "Oh, we told everyone visiting with IE to piss off."
Boss: "Right, good job!"
"that some people still have time to waste at work. On the other hand, they got some free publicity out of it."
That's what I was thinking, and who are they to decide IE6 died today? "Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado." Oh, right, well they're the authority on browsers then, the prestigious design group in Denver, and forget the 20% of internet users still using IE6 "Despite its age, IE6 still held on to 19.8 percent of the market in February".
I hate IE6 as much as the next guy, but who am I (or Athn Design Group) to declare "it's dead"? Seems a bit presumptuous on their part, to declare themselves worthy of deciding what browsers we should use. What's next? "Up next at 10: Frank's Computers declares Windows XP dead, funeral on Friday, donations accepted"
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
I want to make sure I never hire you to do any work for me. You are obviously too short-sighted to deal with reality.
After you give us yours so we can make sure we never work for you. You're obviously going to demand that we spend twice the time developing the site on two rapidly diverging technology levels, essentially requiring us to make two copies of the site while only paying for one.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
It didn't help that Microsoft didn't offer IE7 to Windows 2000 users. Sure, all W2K support ends in June, but not offering it artificially kept organizations on IE6...
Why would it have been important? If you were running a mixed W2K-XP shop in the 2006-2009 era, 2006 being the first year of availability for IE7, you kept IE6 unless you wanted to spend big bucks to support two browser versions internally. W2K was still in wide corporate use in 2006-2007--IE7 and Office 2007 were the first major apps that wouldn't run on W2K...
Personally, I think that not offering IE7 on W2K was a huge mistake... It would be the equivalent of Microsoft not offering IE8 on XP.
Windows 3.1x calc: 3.11 - 3.10 = 0.00
True, but they got more free publicity than they can shake a stick at. I'm sure the goal was exposure.