Personally, I use a combination of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome on my computers -- all for visiting different websites. Among the benefits of upgrading, as listed on the Internet Explorer 6 Countdown site: Improved speed, better privacy settings and tabbed browsing.
I don't even remember what life was like before the tabbed browser. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Microsoft was planning to fix these issues in Internet Explorer 7 by summer of , but it was delayed until an October release, over 5 years after IE6's debut. Because a substantial percentage of the web audience still uses the outdated browser most notably in China , campaigns have been established to encourage users to upgrade to newer versions of Internet Explorer or switch to different browsers.
Some websites have dropped support for IE6 entirely, most notably of which is Google dropping support in some of its services. According to Microsoft's modern. When IE6 was released, it included a number of enhancements over its predecessor, Internet Explorer 5.
It and its layout engine Trident are a requirement for many programs including Microsoft Encarta. IE6 improved support for Cascading Style Sheets CSS , adding support for a number or properties which previously had not been implemented and fixing bugs such as the Internet Explorer box model bug.
Microsoft Wiki Explore. Windows families. Worth noting is the fact that, with all the talk surrounding how important it is to start thinking about the mobile web , only 14, users accessed the website on a mobile device in the last month -- over 6, fewer users than use IE6.
If supporting mobile is important, supporting IE6 is even more important. We should be honest about that fact. But I think hope that the figures for IE6 and mobile will have reversed by this time next year. Fingers crossed we will be able to take our eyes off IE6 soon. Duncan, I think supporting IE6 is more of an inconvenience than an "absolute pain". I don't agree with your logic that "if supporting mobile is important, supporting IE6 is even more important" based on numbers alone.
I think that supporting the mobile Web which is being actively developed is far more important than supporting a nine year old, legacy browser that's holding on to current Web standards by the skin of its teeth.
It is sometimes called core support. Delivered via nothing more than semantic HTML, the content and experience is highly accessible, unenhanced by decoration or advanced functionality, and forward and backward compatible.
Layers of style and behavior are omitted. I'd be more than happy for us to move to that level of support for the University website next year. It's pretty much what we're doing already: make sure it doesn't break terribly but don't spend too much trying to get things to line-up in a pixel-perfect way with other, more modern, more compliant browsers. As with all technology, it is ever changing and improving. In the case of the Internet, we now have new modern standards, such as HTML5 and CSS3 that demand a modern browser to be able to articulate those standards.
In addition to the web other factors such as Processors, in the case of bit technology and operating systems require that other technologies keep pace.
As important as the technology, the issue of Security should be paramount on folks mind. Modern browsers have far better security features and leave the user less vulnerable to attacks, hacking, and viruses.
Of course, what I didn't mention explicitly but did touch upon in my blog post is that sometimes some users cannot upgrade from IE6 on their machines, either to later versions of IE perhaps because they are locked to still using Windows on a corporate managed-build or to other browsers such as Firefox or Chrome because security permissions do not allow them to install software. But that does sounds to me like an endorsement from the IE Outreach Team to drop A-grade support for IE6 sooner rather than later and encourage users to upgrade.
I'd be happy with that: upgrade for the sake of security and features.
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