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A friend of mine working for the government told me that in one major government agency, the most popular version of IE used on their website is IE11. The seco

A friend of mine working for the government told me that in one major government agency, the most popular version of IE used on their website is IE11. The second most popular version? IE 6. Not even 8. IE 6. Who still uses it? Employees of other government departments...

alanh 10y ago
Yeah… just a reminder: IE6 was released in August 2011.
- Diggsey 10y ago
  No it wasn't... It was released in 2001
- kpozin 10y ago
  A little earlier than that: August 2001.
  - alanh 10y ago
    Can I blame bitrot? Yes, thanks, of course I meant 2001.
    - madgar 10y ago
      For a sense of just how long ago that was, IE6 was released before 9/11. Truly a more innocent time.
- drv 10y ago
  2001, not 2011. Time flies. :)
konklone 10y ago
While this is plausible for the past, I think this info is outdated now. https://analytics.usa.gov https://analytics.usa.gov has lots of data on this (and you can break it out by agency using the dropdown at the top). It also estimates that only 5% of data comes from federal networks. (Disclaimer: I work on analytics.usa.gov.)
- ajdlinux 10y ago
  I didn't say US Government. Australia :)
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    We should have analytics.dto.gov.au.
  - konklone 10y ago
    It's open source. ;) https://github.com/18f/analytics.usa.gov#analyticsusagov https://github.com/18f/analytics.usa.gov#analyticsusagov
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    https://www.dto.gov.au/blog/building-better-services-with-analytics/ https://www.dto.gov.au/blog/building-better-services-with-an...
tjalfi 10y ago
I would hope that they are using IE11 set to IE6 compatibility mode. My employer has an application that requires IE5 compatibility mode.
angry_octet 10y ago
This is because some project once created an internal application with a web interface, which was tested with IE6. This application may be critical to keeping people happy (e.g. the HR system) or some unqualified bozo may want to 'cut costs' like updating apps to new browsers, so mandates sticking to a 'stable' version like IE6. And all future apps will have to target IE6 forever more... It gets worse... People write apps that use Flash (online training) or Java applets. There are solutions to this, but none of them involve using the one true SOE, one SOE to rule them all!

alanh 10y ago

Yeah… just a reminder: IE6 was released in August 2011.

Diggsey 10y ago
No it wasn't... It was released in 2001
kpozin 10y ago
A little earlier than that: August 2001.
- alanh 10y ago
  Can I blame bitrot? Yes, thanks, of course I meant 2001.
  - madgar 10y ago
    For a sense of just how long ago that was, IE6 was released before 9/11. Truly a more innocent time.
drv 10y ago
2001, not 2011. Time flies. :)

konklone 10y ago

While this is plausible for the past, I think this info is outdated now. https://analytics.usa.gov https://analytics.usa.gov has lots of data on this (and you can break it out by agency using the dropdown at the top). It also estimates that only 5% of data comes from federal networks. (Disclaimer: I work on analytics.usa.gov.)

ajdlinux 10y ago
I didn't say US Government. Australia :)
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  We should have analytics.dto.gov.au.
- konklone 10y ago
  It's open source. ;) https://github.com/18f/analytics.usa.gov#analyticsusagov https://github.com/18f/analytics.usa.gov#analyticsusagov
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  https://www.dto.gov.au/blog/building-better-services-with-analytics/ https://www.dto.gov.au/blog/building-better-services-with-an...

tjalfi 10y ago

I would hope that they are using IE11 set to IE6 compatibility mode. My employer has an application that requires IE5 compatibility mode.

angry_octet 10y ago

This is because some project once created an internal application with a web interface, which was tested with IE6. This application may be critical to keeping people happy (e.g. the HR system) or some unqualified bozo may want to 'cut costs' like updating apps to new browsers, so mandates sticking to a 'stable' version like IE6. And all future apps will have to target IE6 forever more... It gets worse... People write apps that use Flash (online training) or Java applets. There are solutions to this, but none of them involve using the one true SOE, one SOE to rule them all!