Comments on: Google deprecating support for IE6?

By: Nitecon

Nitecon — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:20:29 +0000

I find posts like these kind of funny as to how people whine that it’s Microsoft’s fault that others are still running IE6. The fact however is any of you that currently have IE7 + installed, go ahead and try install IE6, this is absolutely impossible, which is a great feat my MS to force users to upgrade their software.

However the problem comes in that enterprise companies use software like HP’s Quality Center that for whatever reason was built just for IE6 / IE7. Due to that the helpdesk teams are not allowed to upgrade the enterprise desktops / notebooks because they have to have IE6 / 7 since from a business standpoint, the businesses shell out several millions for software licenses, dropping that cash in the toilet just to move to a new browser isn’t an option.

I’m a *nix person myself and love *nix over microsoft products for the fact that it doesn’t have rsync, ssh, or scp, but I have to admit that the MS OS’s kill the look & feel of any other OS out there. *nix has always had kde / gnome, even though kde can be made pretty it’s so full of bugs it’s sometimes unusable. As for gnome, well it’s looked as bad as OSX for the last 10 years, nothing has really changed that much.

And my last statement on this… all of my friends whine about MS products asking for permission to do admin features… So does *nix and so does mac too.

By: Esteban

Esteban — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:38:11 +0000

I agree 100% with DOliva. I mean look at IE6, it is the epitome of browsers: small footprint (uncompared to any other browser including Chrome), amazing Javascript support (V8 has nothing on it), its lack of tabbed browsing streamlines productivity by maintaining focus on current task (same reason that I still favor single core processors over multithread/multicore), its rendering is leaps and bounds ahead of webkit (in all aspects: adhering to web standards, physical/visual rendering etc..). I don’t honestly see why Microsoft made any browsers after 6, they got it right with that one.

PS: I lied, thank you Google for finally taking this sick browser out behind the barn for us…

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:39:34 +0000

I used to be a web developer as well. The cost of maintaining support for IE6 is extraordinary. It is simply a horrible browser that does everything wrong… and to support it, you have to “trick” it into rendering your website properly. Supporting IE 6, can kill weeks trying to figure why it won’t do something it is supposed to do.

I applaud Google. Thank you Google. Flush this browser out of the system once and for all. IE7 has it’s issues too, but IE6 needs to DIE DIE DIE!

By: RWes

RWes — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:22:49 +0000

Seriously, I like MS, Windows 7, IE 7 +, Office 2010 changes, & other MS Products. I also love my iPhone, use Chrome, Opera & Safari. I like to consider myself objective/neutral; that said:

IE 6 must DIE & I agree with the one poster about a class action, if it were legal ;). Having had to deal with CSS to just handle IE 6 related issues, I would be so happy to see that browser just disappear.

By: iso ka

iso ka — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:22:25 +0000

ie sucks, use better browsers to save developers.

By: Rohit

Rohit — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:01:30 +0000

There are t shirts coming out with quotes

“Seriously, you still you IE 6!”

Its time to let the old once upon a time most used browser to rest

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:33:38 +0000

I agree with all the developers as I am one myself. To make websites working in IE6 we need to usually use the IE-specific comment tags which we should not use as this is considered as “hack & slash” technique.

And those bloody double margins are basically screwing everything up!

IE6 should’ve died once IE7 came out on the market. Long time ago.

By: Attit

Attit — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:06:32 +0000

Can we please just kill all IE products? They all suck and are the bane of every web designer!

save a developer, use a better browser!

By: Art Yaffe

Art Yaffe — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:07:43 +0000

As of this morning, I cannot use IE6 for Gmail. I have Firefox loaded, but I really don’t like it or IE7. I will use Firefox for Gmail when I need to use the webmail version, but that’s not very often.

By: stevegmag

stevegmag — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:00:48 +0000

@DOliva: That’s a bunch of Hoo-HA! IE 6 needs to be retired for good after a seven year reign. It’s lack of support for standards has caused, god only knows, how many wasted developer hours and dollars of those who employ them. If had a law degree I would start a class action suit against MS.

While I understand that IE 6 was a major player in web history, just imagine where the state of web design and development would be today with out all the wasted effort supporting, what is at best, a mediocre browser.