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IE6 Almost Dead In the US
SharkLaser writes "Microsoft, and the whole tech world, is celebrating the fact that use of Internet Explorer 6 has dropped below one percent in the US. 'Time to pop open the champagne because, based on the latest data from Net Applications, IE6 usage in the US has now officially dropped below 1 per cent!,' said Roger Capriotti, director of Internet Explorer marketing. 'IE6 has been the punch line of browser jokes for a while, and we've been as eager as anyone to see it go away.'"
Why? IE9 is a completely good browser. It's on par with Chrome, but in fact it offers even more features and security than Firefox does currently, like sandboxing. It's also standards compliant and supports HTML5. There's nothing to hate about IE9.
It's also the only browser that supports GPOs. Firefox had somewhat of a start, but it's not officially supported and they keep changing the damn thing.
http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-templates
its not inherently clear in the HTML how things are being laid out on the page
It's not supposed to be clear from the HTML alone. It's supposed to be that you can swap the CSS and have the document laid out differently.
I've seen your post before, but on the off chance that you're not just getting paid to copy and paste, let me tell you that there IS a home button in Chrome.
Click on "Customize and Control Google Chrome" (the wrench in the upper right corner).
Click on "Options" (about two-thirds down in the list of choices, fifth from the bottom).
On the first page that opens, "Basics", in the third section down, "Toolbar", check the box for "Show Home Button".
Close out the options page and the "Home" icon will now be in your toolbar.
How come Slashdot never gets Slashdotted?
Dude, lay off the paranoia. IE6 is 10 years old. It predates every other browser in use today, other than Opera.
To say that Microsoft deliberately made it incompatible with browsers that didn't exist when it was written is a bit crazy.
IE6 was the most standards compliant browser there was when it existed, even more so than Opera. WAY more so than Netscape. And Mozilla was nowhere close to a finished product.
No, it was not perfect, and no, it didn't fully support the existing standards, but then neither did anyone else. IE6 is just old, it was not a plot to destroy standards compatibility.
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Troll? Strawman? I don't know. Either way, completely wrong.
Users said the same thing about IE6, so you're obviously not a web developer.
IE9 is nowhere near Chrome or Firefox. You should be modded down for misinformation.
In terms of features, here's a quick comparison.
IE9 vs Firefox 9
http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=firefox+9
IE9 vs Chrome 16
http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=chrome+16
IE9's performance is also way behind - It barely wins on Sunspider and then loses badly on Kraken and V8 being up to 400% slower. Their 64bit build is even worse and the author didn't bother posting the results because they're so bad.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-big-browser-benchmark-chrome-1615-vs-opera-11-vs-ie9-vs-firefox-98-vs-safari-5/17367
Sure there are. Besides not being as fast and not supporting standards as well as the others, it also only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. You're out of luck if you're running Windows XP, Linux or OS X. IE9 also has a new but buggy rendering engine. Here's one that I ran into a few days ago. http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/support/ie9_issue/index.html. Here's another http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6392826/mobile-table-crashes-ie9. There are more of these types of bugs in IE than all the other browsers combined. I still hate IE.
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IE6 was the most standards compliant browser there was when it existed, even more so than Opera
[Citation Seriously Friggin' Needed]
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