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> (who cares about IE6 resizing anymore?) Most decent front-end developers. I imagine there's a correlation between running IE6 and having impaired vision (ye

• geuis 18y ago
  I'm on 2 sides of this. I agree with you from the perspective of a long-time front-end dev about accessibility. On the other hand, I am firmly of the belief that continuing to help people cross the street that are perfectly capable of looking both ways does nothing to encourage them learn to look. The more we keep going out of our way to support IE6 doesn't encourage people to upgrade to newer browsers. I think people in our line of work often forget that before IE6 killed Netscape, people were used to upgrading their browsers to new versions fairly often. There was always a new version of IE and Netscape available. Granted, the overall size of the internet population was WAY smaller back then, but I think statistically the upgrade behavior would have been the same. We have to get people back into the habit of doing upgrades to improve their experience. This also ties in deeply with people that don't do updates on their operating systems because they have this outdated notion that "updates are bad". Finally, the argument that most IE6 users are corporate and can't upgrade is bunk. In the last 4 years, I've worked at small companies and big companies, and in no situation have I seen a corporate policy that forbids upgrading the browser. No one ever gives real-world examples of companies and applications where this happens. Its become this "common wisdom" that everyone "knows" but can never point to literal examples. Lets stop reinforcing bad behaviors.
• mr_justin 18y ago
  It's not about being decent or not, no need to try and belittle. It's about who your target audience is.