Get rid of IE6!

[Calvin]

Check this out. (http://ie6countdown.com/)

About time really, coding for IE6 is an absolute pain in the ass. Share it around. :)

[efq]

Bloody Chinese haha.

[Jordy]

I realise it's past it's time now but I was always a great fan of Internet Explorer 6, I hung on to it for a while, refusing Firefox and not willing to upgrade to IE 7 "I don't need no tabs!" - Was kinda cool how it was integrated with Windows Explorer and relatively simple to use (Although it looks complicated compared to Google Chrome).

[GommeInc]

I better get learning Chinese :P Where is the countdown, or are they just saying "end of 2011" as the end of the timer? I was sat staring at the screen expecting it to tell me when IE 6 is hopefully wiped off the face of the earth - or people have stopped coding sites for it, whichever comes first.

[Trinity]

TIL where China actually is, I always thought it was slightly further north and a lot bigger.


Check this out. (http://ie6countdown.com/)

About time really, coding for IE6 is an absolute pain in the ass. Share it around. :)

What is the 'about time really' bit referring to? People have been dropping support for it for years and websites like that have been around for just as long.


I better get learning Chinese :P Where is the countdown, or are they just saying "end of 2011" as the end of the timer? I was sat staring at the screen expecting it to tell me when IE 6 is hopefully wiped off the face of the earth - or people have stopped coding sites for it, whichever comes first.

I'm pretty sure anyone who knows how to code will refuse to code for IE6 these days unless paid a lot more than their usual fee, web developers want it gone for good.
I was confused by the countdown it too, misleading name :(

[Calvin]

I just found it on CHF, so thought I'd share it on here haha. And some website says 2014 they're ending it for good but I'm not sure.

[HotelUser]

I do not support IE6 in anything I code. Infact, I'm not so sure it all runs so smoothly in IE7 either. I will support IE8 and IE9. The foremost grudgingly and because a lot of people use it in ignorance. Grudgingly because Microsoft had yet again failed to adhere to the generally accepted standards of progressional web development for countless years.

It just sucks and I cannot express on an acceptable amplitude the amount at which that browser's shown a history of such epic failure and the developer team such a great display of massive ignorance. The amount of IE users really goes to show why so many people use IE, and equally, Windows. Because it came with their computer and they simply know no different or better. Indifference sucks we should banish them from the interweb until they download Chrome.

I have taken the liberty of converting this website's banner into a singular image that will work anywhere for anyone who's interested. This is what it will look like for IE users:

http://develop.davzy.com/ieuser/ie.png



http://develop.davzy.com/ieuser/ (http://www.google.com/chrome)

[Recursion]

I have taken the liberty of converting this website's banner into a singular image that will work anywhere for anyone who's interested. This is what it will look like for IE users:

http://develop.davzy.com/ieuser/ie.png



http://develop.davzy.com/ieuser/ (http://www.google.com/chrome)


I don't see the point in those, people using computers on a Windows domain may still be using IE8, which isn't that old but provides easy management through group policies for the Administrators which Chrome and Firefox does not.

[xxMATTGxx]

I don't see the point in those, people using computers on a Windows domain may still be using IE8, which isn't that old but provides easy management through group policies for the Administrators which Chrome and Firefox does not.


Agreed. I agree with the banners for IE6 because Microsoft want people to get upgrading to more newer versions and what not but you can't tell people to switch over to IE8 to Chrome when they don't want. Anyway, they can all go to IE9 when it's released fully.

[HotelUser]

Agreed. I agree with the banners for IE6 because Microsoft want people to get upgrading to more newer versions and what not but you can't tell people to switch over to IE8 to Chrome when they don't want. Anyway, they can all go to IE9 when it's released fully.


I don't see the point in those, people using computers on a Windows domain may still be using IE8, which isn't that old but provides easy management through group policies for the Administrators which Chrome and Firefox does not.

They should still be smart enough not to use IE8 with is still garbage. If they wont move over to Chrome which is a million times better they can move over to the current release if IE9 which is a thousand times better.

[Marbian]

I thought IE6 went down ages ago! I haven't heard of it for a long time. Saying that, I don't use internet explorer at all anymore. Chrome is the beast these days.

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Agreed. I agree with the banners for IE6 because Microsoft want people to get upgrading to more newer versions and what not but you can't tell people to switch over to IE8 to Chrome when they don't want. Anyway, they can all go to IE9 when it's released fully.

IE9 was released fully 2 weeks ago-ish.

[Recursion]

They should still be smart enough not to use IE8 with is still garbage. If they wont move over to Chrome which is a million times better they can move over to the current release if IE9 which is a thousand times better.

No, you don't understand, on a large multiuser, multimachine, network like in a school or corporate environment, moving away from IE is no simple task in a domain environment. If I want to quickly push changes to Internet Explorer I can change some group policies (also user based) and just refresh them, if I rolled out Chrome or Firefox my user-based settings would be much more difficult to manage across an entire network.

[HotelUser]

No, you don't understand, on a large multiuser, multimachine, network like in a school or corporate environment, moving away from IE is no simple task in a domain environment. If I want to quickly push changes to Internet Explorer I can change some group policies (also user based) and just refresh them, if I rolled out Chrome or Firefox my user-based settings would be much more difficult to manage.

No that's silly you can move the appdata or just use IE9.

IE8 is trash and nobody should use it.

[Recursion]

No that's silly you can move the appdata or just use IE9.

IE8 is trash and nobody should use it.

IE9 is still release candidate and having to modify user profiles everytime I want to make changes is a rediculous way of doing things, I'd have to modify user profiles for each student group and then go through every staff profile changing their app data whilst hoping I haven't modified any user permissions or broken anything else, it's a waste of time.

EDIT: Looked it up, Chrome doesn't even store it's User profile data in the roaming profile, so that totally breaks any sort of consistency across the network when they log onto another machine.

[efq]

Why don't they just release one last update that screws their IE6 browser up so they uninstall :D

[xxMATTGxx]

I thought IE6 went down ages ago! I haven't heard of it for a long time. Saying that, I don't use internet explorer at all anymore. Chrome is the beast these days.

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IE9 was released fully 2 weeks ago-ish.

Not released in that way, the release candidate is out but not a release where normal users would get it.

[Luke]

I managed to talk the school into running a small trial for Firefox, and in the end, we used this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm/
It hasn't been distributed to the whole school yet (and probably never will seems as it's closing in 5-6 months?) but for the 10-20 people that are using it, it seems to work fine and at any workstation?

[Recursion]

I managed to talk the school into running a small trial for Firefox, and in the end, we used this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm/
It hasn't been distributed to the whole school yet (and probably never will seems as it's closing in 5-6 months?) but for the 10-20 people that are using it, it seems to work fine and at any workstation?

Interesting, might give it a go

[HotelUser]

Interesting, might give it a go

Well now that we've cleared that up can we set the torches on IE 8 and below then :)

[xxMATTGxx]

Well now that we've cleared that up can we set the torches on IE 8 and below then :)

Not really :P

[peteyt]

A lot of people refused to go to Internet Explorer 7 at first. I know that when I upgraded (think I was still using Firefox at the time as well) I found it hard to find stuff like history and so on. I mean a lot of people are still on XP, I only recently upgraded o Windows 7 as I needed to purchase a new copy, my academic version of XP's disc died and couldn't get hold of a legal download.

At least microsoft is now trying to keep ahead. There was a massive gap between ie 6 and 7 and microsoft went on about tab browsing and stuff when ie 7 was released while firefox had had i for quite some years

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A lot of people refused to go to Internet Explorer 7 at first. I know that when I upgraded (think I was still using Firefox at the time as well) I found it hard to find stuff like history and so on. I mean a lot of people are still on XP, I only recently upgraded o Windows 7 as I needed to purchase a new copy, my academic version of XP's disc died and couldn't get hold of a legal download.

At least microsoft is now trying to keep ahead. There was a massive gap between ie 6 and 7 and microsoft went on about tab browsing and stuff when ie 7 was released while firefox had had i for quite some years