Bye Bye IE6…
Tagged with: Google • Microsoft
good riddance!
I just got an email about my Google Apps Domain account from Google stating that HTML5 and java improvements from Google will phase out IE6 support. It took forever but finally it dies!!
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February 4th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I quit coding for IE6 (and began to argue the point in meetings) when YouTube did. Die, foul undead corpse of web technology past, die!
It’s important for geeks to take an active role in killing that which must die. If zombies ever attack, we will be the ones to destroy them.
Next target: Flash.
February 4th, 2010 at 9:59 pm
LOL, yea when major companies like YouTube and Google move forward, that is usually a sign that everyone else should too.
Good luck with flash. That is one hell of a behemoth. Not to mention that doing so would give MS’s Silverlight the nod most likely. Unfortunately for geeks Flash is embedded in way too much shit.
February 4th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
The emerging open video standard and HTML 5 would be a better path than Silverlight. If Google, Youtube, and Facebook support them, Silverlight won’t stand a chance.
February 5th, 2010 at 7:55 am
D’Oh! I totally spaced on that super huge mega key feature of HTML 5… I would agree. HTML 5 will force Adobe and MS to fight over who wins the crap-tacular ness of Silverlight and Flash and both will probably dwindle over time.
The real problem, I’m not sure how to overcome this, is getting people to understand that without good content, Flash and its ilk makes websites suck more not less. Well that and with good Firefox plugins I can easily block their special flashy content they spent time and money coding.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
I totally agree with you guys on IE6 and flash.
At work we are finally getting ready to move from IE6 to 8, it is ridiculously overdue.
Most people complain endlessly about the iphone/pad not supporting flash. But I for one am glad apple is fighting the good fight.
March 9th, 2010 at 7:05 am
Moving from IE6 to IE8 is setting your company up for painting itself into another corner a few years down the road. An app designed to only work in IE will only (maybe) work in some future version of IE. If you switch to a standards-based browser, you can always switch to another standards-based browser.
ActiveX needs to join Flash in the dustbin…
March 9th, 2010 at 8:56 am
I wish my company would do that George. I’m with you as it makes little sense to me, but people have it so ingrained in their heads that they have to use MS. For example, here at work you have to get approval to use Firefox. Then get a separate approval to get proxy access. The whole thing seems insane to me!!
What do people not understand about FF being safer, more reliable, and standards based? Not to mention I save the company on Internet browsing charges with Ad Block Plus due to all the flash and other crap that gets blocked on pages I visit…