11July

Judgement day for IE6 is near

IE6 has long been a thorn in the sides of many web developers, offering limited support for many established web standards that often force devs to implement ugly, ugly hacks. It might not be so bad if there weren’t so many people still using the damn thing over eight years after its release (and two full browser upgrades from Microsoft), but it still has an alarmingly large following. Its poor performance, combined with its persistence, has made it one of the worst tech products of all time. And Digg has had enough. Read the rest of the article here.

I completely agree, it is unfair to developers to have to support a technology that is 8 years old. You wouldn’t use your old DVD player to a BlueRay disk on it, would you? Then why use IE6 to view visually and feature rich content of today’s web? To all you people out there with IE6, please do us all a favor and Get Firefox!

via TechCrunch

2 responses to “Judgement day for IE6 is near”


  1. [...] lives (including yours truly). A lot of people are getting very excited about the prospect of no more IE6. I would be one of the first to crack open a bottle of bubbly when the final installation [...]


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