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I've seen lot of things, but still never encountered one of these rumored 'enterprise IE6 only intranet'-apps. Do these things really exists? And why have they
by zyb09 17y ago
I've seen lot of things, but still never encountered one of these rumored 'enterprise IE6 only intranet'-apps. Do these things really exists? And why have they not been rewritten yet? These things must be 10+ years old. I rewrote couple internal apps that were a mess of php tucked together with mysql.. they worked.. but hell.
If I'll come across one of these IE6 apps, I'll be the first one to lobby for a rewrite.
- hy3lxs 17y agoGo to any Wells Fargo branch. Ask a banker to pull up your account. Notice the little blue 'e' in the upper-right corner. That's over 6000 retail locations using ie6. To handle your money.
- xsmasher 17y agoThey exist. They are payroll, timesheet, and scheduling apps built in the early days of javascript and css when cross-browser compatibility was much harder, and sold to companies who has IE 4 or 5 or 6 on all machines anyway, so what's the big deal if it doesn't work in Netscape? I'm sure even the people who wrote them never imaged they'd still be in use ten years later.
- jsz0 17y agoYes, they do unfortunately. Often they are relics of some old homespun solution no one understands and everyone is afraid to touch, maybe a product of a dead company, or simply ancient versions that haven't been upgraded in eons because it's cheaper and easier to keep IE6 installed.