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- 27182818284 14y agoShrug. People who can upgrade have already. It isn't a won't, it is a can't. So you aren't teaching anybody anything.
- melling 14y agoWell, if they can't do the upgrade then they should find the person who can. If people scream loud enough it will get done.
- papsosouid 14y agoYes, they should replace the operating system they currently use and are perfectly happy with just because you want them too. Step outside yourself for a moment and consider who those people are, and what their needs are. They don't care about your buzzword3.0 social.ly cloud.io startup's pointless javascript app. The fact that it won't work in IE6 doesn't matter to them in the least, they just use their web browser to retrieve information, a simple task which even mosaic is perfectly capable of. Crashing their browser to try to make yourself feel good doesn't accomplish anything.
- true_religion 14y agoSometimes I wonder about things.... Do you honestly believe that anyone with a business is going to consider using this code as opposed to either ignoring IE6 users, or re-directing them to a page that asks them to upgrade? I think, just by looking at it, its a joke but I might be wrong (Poe's Law).
- papsosouid 14y agoDid you reply to the wrong post by accident? I was responding to the post I replied to. My comment should obviously be taken in that context, not as a response to the existence of the "plugin".
- mixmastamyk 14y agoHi, two weeks ago I asked you a question about which css framework you recommended and I believe you may not have seen it, as there was a very large discussion. As I have no other way to contact you I wonder if you could answer here?
- papsosouid 14y agoI don't know of any that I would consider using. We have a web designer on staff so it isn't an issue for us.
- 27182818284 14y agoIT people in enterprise are often being pressured to deal with more serious issues by higher ranking people than the issues of front-desk people using IE6 because they frankly don't need anything more. Even if they screamed, it wouldn't be counted as a priority. You can see this happen in local restaurant traffic. They tend to have higher amounts of IE6 traffic because office employees are scoping out their menus from their work machines. This is going away though too, but not because of upgrades. Instead, it is going away because those employees are more and more likely to carry a smartphone. The secretary upfront doesn't need to look at the menu in IE6 anymore, instead he will use his iPhone if it is more convenient / works better.
- oinksoft 14y agoDescription: A jQuery plugin for crashing IE6. That'll teach those motherf!%@*#s to upgrade their s#*t. To save your time, here is the code: ;jQuery.crash=function(x){for(x in document.open);}; Define a function on a global object? Plugin!
- grandalf 14y agoI think the real reason IE6 persists is b/c windows 2000 persists and IE6 is the newest version of IE that can be installed on Win2K. Firefox no longer supports Win2K and Chrome has never supported it.
- r00fus 14y agoI've heard that XP is widely deployed, but in what world does a business persist in keeping Win2K deployed? Wifi support is weak, and USB support was still shaky. I doubt Win2K is the reason. It's more likely IIS-specific ActiveX-infested enterprise code that requires IE6... Microsoft (and their partners) have a rather sizeable consulting presence that has in the past 15 years pushed out a lot of MS-specific web solutions.
- grandalf 14y agoWindows 2K is the newest version of Windows that does not "phone home" to activate after the product key was entered. Thus it is widespread due to piracy.