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I fail to see how that is a counter point. It doesn't appear to be broken because the effort of the developers required to support it. The rough edges that rema
by ary 16y ago
I fail to see how that is a counter point. It doesn't appear to be broken because the effort of the developers required to support it. The rough edges that remain are too nuanced for the average person to notice. More and more IE6 is being left behind, but the holdouts, mostly in the corporate sphere, are going to need massive user pressure to get the internal IT machine moving.
- jodrellblank 16y agoIt's a counter point because the kind of big bureaucratic custom website laden company which is stuck on IE6 doesn't give a damn that it takes you two months instead of one. It's about as compelling as saying COBOL isn't much fun, how about you rewrite all your apps in Ruby-on-Rails because then my life will be more pleasant. The real way to make ie6 go away is to charge so much to make any site work on it that there's a real economic imperative for companies to pause for thought and consider replanning. When it doesn't cost a lot and your main argument is "why not rework your IT system because one bit of my job is a bit fiddly and boring" that's not such a compelling reason. See also CORBA, SOAP, COM, and endless other technologies which aren't fun but companies pay for and people work on anyway.