Comments on: Thoughts & Criticisms on Browsers of Past and Present: Drop IE6?

By: Картины

Картины — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:17:23 +0000

I can’t believe it!!!

By: Will Knot B. Revealed Snr.

Will Knot B. Revealed Snr. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:45:43 +0000

“A bamb?”

I’m sorry, I’ve an attack of the Clouseau’s!

By: Will Knot B. Revealed Snr.

Will Knot B. Revealed Snr. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:43:21 +0000

The sooner we can drop, or drop a bamb on, that sucker the happier I’ll be.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:07:08 +0000

Gasp! PNG’s, yeah they can be a real pain with IE6 and you’re right though. Once you figure out what’s causing your problem between browsers, usually you can avoid it in the future.

The key is smarter stylesheets, it’s all in the CSS. Sometimes, only sometimes do you have to use a (whispers), IE6 hack.

Here’s hoping for a day when cross-browser design becomes as easy as using only one stylesheet. *crosses fingers*

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:57:46 +0000

While IE6 certainly makes things more difficult, eventually you realize that just about every site you do will have more or less the same issues. Once you figure it out the first (or 7th) time and know your common bugs, it gets a lot easier to deal with. PNGs can still be a challenge, though.

IE6 should definitely be dropped by average users, if not for their own browsing experience than at least for their own security concerns. But trying to lead that charge on the backs of my clients who are just trying to get a website up just doesn’t seem right to me.

As for Chrome, I’ll save my thoughts on that one for the next post.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:19:52 +0000

I know from personal experience, because I am a designer, that IE6 is one of the worst browsers of all time. I should say though, I am extremely biased in this opinion being that I am a HUGE supporter of open source browsers like Firefox and Flock.

IE6 is a disaster to design for now and debugging any site is such a pain that it makes me want to cry out and smash my face into this monitor. Now granted, my latest project is not up to par as I would like it to be (i.e. xhtml standards and so on…) because I took many, many shortcuts for time’s sake.

Even so, IE6 should be dropped not only by us as designers, but by the average user as well. It’s ancient technology and besides that…it’s made by Microsoft (egads!).

Well, there’s my rant…and my initial tests of Chrome have been satisfactory thus far. Here’s hoping.