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IE6 Almost Dead In the US

Posted by Unknown on from the premature-graying-in-programmers-reduced dept.

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.'"

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  1. Wrong, IE9 sucks by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I posted a comment almost identical to yours this year praising IE9, but today IE9 is not a good browser.
    It's an old and crusty browser, because you know web stuff moves THAT fast.

    As usual IE is tightly bound to windows, and yet again particular versions of windows. IE9 supports some HTML5 stuff sure. It also supports canvas, but canvas is useless without requestAnimationFrame. Session history management, asyncronous external Javascript, native Regex form validation

    http://caniuse.com/ for the complete list of how embarrassingly old IE9 is.
    So sorry, but your comment is around 9 months out of date.