Early Eulogy for IE 6
With the soon coming release of a full IE8 and Microsoft’s continuous commitment to half steps in the browser development arena, there has been a lot of murmuring about the eventual fall of Internet Explorer 6. If you are a PC user who may have never been susceptible to the automatic update that pushed [...]
By Tobin Lehman March 2009del.icio.us | Digg it | ma.gnolia | Newsvine | reddit | Shadows | Spurl | StumbleUpon |
With the soon coming release of a full IE8 and Microsoft’s continuous commitment to half steps in the browser development arena, there has been a lot of murmuring about the eventual fall of Internet Explorer 6. If you are a PC user who may have never been susceptible to the automatic update that pushed many users into IE7, you might be wondering – what’s so bad about IE6? Well, IE6 has been the “thorn in the side†of web designers and developers for many reasons, but much to the use of Microsoft’s proprietary CSS box-model which creates the need for every web site to be built twice, or at least in 1.5 times using different style sheets. Let alone the additional bugs that exist in IE6 that make every task in programming just feel a little more taxing.
So to mark the year in which IE6 will finally fall below supportable levels, I have compiled a list of links to remember this fallen giant and the hordes of people who couldn’t wait for it to pass on. The following links are organized by death-scale, starting with “why is should die†to the more active “campaigns trying to kill it.†Whatever may happen this year, IE6 and I will still have those memories of broken mice and expletives that we shared many a night past.
Why it should die:
- The weird and wonderful world of Internet Explorer
- IE CSS bugs that’ll get you every time
- 119 Bugs in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows
Why it won’t die:
- The Slow Lingering Death of IE6
- Campaigns to kill the web browser that just won’t die: Internet Explorer 6
- Why won’t IE6 die already!?