Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 194
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."
Just remember... (Score:5, Insightful)
Wishful thinking (Score:5, Insightful)
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What a waste of time (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What about the 30% of people still using it? (Score:3, Insightful)
Sales Guy: "Oh, we told everyone visiting with IE to piss off."
Boss: "Right, good job!"
Re:It's nice to know in this time of economic turm (Score:3, Insightful)
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 [cnn.com] "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"
Re:What about the 30% of people still using it? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Not dead for some... (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:It's nice to know in this time of economic turm (Score:2, Insightful)
True, but they got more free publicity than they can shake a stick at. I'm sure the goal was exposure.