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Why I love my Mac, hate web development, and learned to loathe IE6 http://tinyurl.com/5skq8x http://tinyurl.com/5skq8x (screenshots of our website) I am an ent
by lowkey 18y ago
Why I love my Mac, hate web development, and learned to loathe IE6 http://tinyurl.com/5skq8x http://tinyurl.com/5skq8x (screenshots of our website)
I am an entrepreneur and a bit of a python hacker but am new to web development as a craft. It was a skill developed from the necessity of a self-funded startup I co-founded.
Wasn't the web supposed to be accessible to all? WTF was Microsoft thinking when they came out with that stinking piece of turd called IE6 and why haven't they killed the beast by now? Instead of killing a plague like IE6 they are killing a solid operating system called Windows XP to be replaced by another Windows Vista ME (at least that's what it feels like).
Sorry for the rant but it's late and I don't like web browsers anymore.
- zepolen 18y agoConsidering firefox chokes on it, I would say the css is badly written.
- halo 18y agoI don't want to interrupt the cliche fanboy hatefest, but when IE6 came out way back in 2001, it was by far the most standards compliant browser out there, and much better than the dying outdated Netscape in terms of feature-completeness. They did not update it for several years while there was little competition. Many of the features taken for granted in modern web development are proprietary Microsoft extensions - InnerHTML and Ajax both come to mind. It's funny you criticise Vista when the reason that you still have to develop for IE6 is because of the huge unprecedented success of XP. IE6 has been the XP browser since it came out. The fact is that if Vista had been a bigger success, an OS that ships with IE7, IE6 would be less of an issue. The "plague" was actually caused by what you praise in the next sentence. They're unlikely to stop supporting IE6 until they stop supporting updates to XP since it's XP's default browser.