March 25 at 9:08 am
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Yeah, you tell 'em. I whole heartedly agree. - Franklin Day
Most users stick w/what's officially supported and won't deviate b/c of the "unsupported" fear. How can you make IT end-of-life IE6 when it's working well enough for the vast majority of users? - Jake Kuramoto
I'm a non-deviator here. My employer hasn't approved IE7 yet, so I'm sticking to IE6 on my work computer. We haven't approved Vista either (which may be a good thing)... - Ontario Emperor
@OE: What's wrong with any of the other modern browsers, e.g. Safari, FF, Flock, Opera? Even Netscape's last version is better. - Jake Kuramoto
This is not just individuals' taste or ignorance but goes beyond. One classic example is - Corporates have not migrated over to IE 7. More over they make sure that none of the employees do so by imposing restrictions. Even company intranets are IE 6 only (FF supported very poorly). Personally I haven't used IE 6 for anything except for my Intranet needs. - pankaj
Opera is a solid alternative. Bunn IE6! - Shey
I have both IE6 and IE7 installed as there are still some clients that use IE6. Yes, they scream when a page is broken but if the code is clean it's an easy fix :) - zoblue (Zulema ❤'s you)
As a web designer, I can't stand the new IE7. But I really never have dealt with IE6 since I have started, because I stick to FF and Safari as my main browsers. - Randy
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If you aren't developing for Firefox 3 you are wasting massive amounts of employee cycles...It's just so much faster than IE 6 or 7 and much much much better at managing memory. - Alex IHateMondays Scoble
I agree. FF3 renders pages exactly as I want them. - Roberto Bonini
We see broken pages every day. In all browsers. There is no standard implementation of the standards. And when you get used to developing for non-standards, they change. I gave up on updating an app I created because I couldn't find JS that worked in all the browsers. - Stephen Pierzchala
Nice one stephen- No standard implementation of standards. Well said!! - Roberto Bonini
It's not even so much of what is "officially" supported, although that plays into it a great deal. A lot of it, gentle readers (and developers), is the attitude "across the neutral zone" is reluctance to seek out new orientation. It's digital fatigue and unless forced to, ie, it doesn't work anymore, new pain is usually what forces the switch. - Melanie Reed