Comments on: IE6 isn’t going anywhere yet

By: John

John — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:34:14 +0000

IE6 is the BEST of the IE series!

By: shantharam

shantharam — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:14:42 +0000

Got to agree with Alexandre, no matter whether its IE 6 or 7 both still have long long way to go to even be able to compete with same kind of rendering that Firefox, Opera or any other modern browser is capable of. What seems interesting is what will happen with CSS3 and HTML5. Headaches for us developers is going to continue till IE6 is completely and totally out of the market.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:25:32 +0000

Chris,

I don’t think the upgrade will be nearly as rapid as you think. Most early adaptors are already long since off IE6 and using Firefox, Opera, or another modern browser.

Those still using IE6 today are largely going to be people who don’t know the difference between the “Big Blue E”, “Google”, and “Internet”, as it were, and simply won’t have the technical wherewithall to upgrade.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:38:48 +0000

While the IE7 update will not be automatic, I can’t imagine that the vast majority of users will not accept the upgrade. Therefore, I believe the IE7 penetration will much more rapid than previous browser versions. The only snag that I could really foresee is enterprise administrators not accepting the upgrade but because of the swiss cheese security holes of IE6, I would imagine most administrators want to get IE6 off their client systems ASAP.

But as Ransico states, IE7 still misses significant support CSS standards. Although some of the major CSS issues have been addressed and the rendering is much better compared to the previous versions. Boy, I can’t wait til the day that I can write one CSS file and not have to include a bunch of browser-specific hacks! I wonder if that day will ever come.

I’d like to put some faith into Microsoft to follow-through with their statement to never let this kind of extended lapse of release to occur again. I’d really like to see new versions every 12 to 18 months with minor updates as necessary. So bring on IE8 with full-CSS2 and possibly CSS3 support!

Have a great day everyone!

By: Ransico

Ransico — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:16:44 +0000

I am not suprised to hear that it won’t be an automatic update.. and speaking long term, I don’t think it is realistic that the cross browser issue will -ever- be solved. As much as I wish it would be.

I vote the web takes the same stand as directX 10 – remove backwards compatibilty and just start over… it is painful, but its just going to get worse and worse otherwise.

By: Alexandre Roberto Pereira

Alexandre Roberto Pereira — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:19:20 +0000

Even if the update was automatic, the IE7 didn’t corrected his major quirks.

Internet Explorer, 6 or 7, still being a piece of crap.