Comments on: Yup, I support IE6. Want to know why?

By: sims

sims — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:13:13 +0000

IE6 is dead! Long live IE6! Shall we also support IE5 because someone doesn’t want to upgrade? Should we, the creators of the web, instruct the unwashed masses? Or shall we cater to their whims and support some outdated technology? I don’t care how cool the new versions of IE are. I doubt any of them will be as secure as a non-MS browser. Let’s not forget this important reason for actively discouraging IE’s usage.

By: Rapidshare Search

Rapidshare Search — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:07:51 +0000

I enjoyed to find this article. I like your point of view. Thanks a lot. Cheers

By: Molson

Molson — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:22:19 +0000

One of the problems is that software vendors sometimes create web interfaces that rely heavily on Active X controls, and in some cases, break with later releases of IE which force IS/IT departments to not be able to upgrade their browsers.

Currently we have both IE8 and FF deployed on most of our user base. We did have a period of time (before IE8 came out) where we could not upgrade from IE6 because IE7 broke the functionality of one of our vendor’s apps; however, we will probably move to IE only because of the difficulty in explaining the difference between IE and FF to our users, and why they have to use IE for certain sites.

On the bright side, eventually IS/IT departments will have no choice but to upgrade the OS from XP to Win7 because XP license downgrades will no longer be possible, which will eliminate the ability to have IE6 installed and allow IE9 to be used.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:26:30 +0000

@David

Yup. Except for this post is now about 6 months old, and I’ve changed my opinions a bit since! With Theme Forest officially stopping IE6 support, so have I on all my themes for sale. Especially with the release of IE9 beta… when IE9 is stable I think I can completely forget about IE6 all together.

By: david

david — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:28:34 +0000

Hey Jason, do you support ie6 by adding dean edwards ie fix, or you hard code the css? because that can be a really pain in the butt having to add height: 1%; display: inline; blablablah.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:12:39 +0000

@Taemin

I can sort of understand what you mean. In the ad agency I was working at previously, all of the sales people and account managers had limited rights on their computes and couldn’t even run updates. They all had Windows XP with IE7, but noone wanted to do anything about it because having the tech people come in and update everyone’s computer is a “scary” thing and a hassle. And noone likes when things change.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:10:49 +0000

@Aaron

As time goes on this post is slowing not representing my opinions. In my last theme two themes for theme forest, I totally disregarded IE6.

By: Taemin Seo

Taemin Seo — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:17:59 +0000

Hey, I’m korean and web-developer even if I’m 19 now.
I really really agree with you !! That you said is just what I’ve been considering.
but you know what? In korea, most people usually use IE6 in their company or public office, because their boss request them not to upgrade the browser. I’ve heard of the reason why they don’t . that’s because they see most website works in IE6. I don’t understand why they like acting like an idiot -_-;;

Anyway, Thank you for your insight so a alot!
I will translate this for korean web-developers with the original link.

By: Online Form

Online Form — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 03:59:54 +0000

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- Laura

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:45:51 +0000

Interesting read. To be honest, it’s because of the “old” or “out of date” securities, that’s all. Since IE9 is coming out hopefully this year, I think it’s crazy to check each IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9 to make sure it looks good, ya know? Nice site, BTW.