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I almost switched careers early on due to IE6. At the time - 2006 or so, it was every new junior developer's job to get up to speed with the codebase by tacklin
by hiram112 7y ago
I almost switched careers early on due to IE6. At the time - 2006 or so, it was every new junior developer's job to get up to speed with the codebase by tackling a few of those outstanding IE6 glitches.
So for months on end, it was just 8 hours a day of Googling, scouring blogs and mailing lists for obscure CSS and JS hacks to get something to work in IE, while not breaking it in every other browser.
Luckily the recession ended a few of those jobs for me, and once hiring picked up again, there was enough demand for real work, and IE6 was no longer considered (probably about the time that YouTube refused to cater to IE6 users), and it quickly died off.