One real user. I'm not really counting you since you only came to the site because I posted a link. My peers at other US universities thought the move was controversial as well. By the time we rolled out the new site, IE6 was less than 3% of our total traffic.
Having a campaign to make sure that all of our university computers were running a newer web browser helped along with cooperation with our campus IT staff: http://blogs.missouristate.edu/web/2010/05/26/out-of-date-browser-warnings/ Chad Killingsworth On Nov 16, 1:21 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 15, 7:38 pm, Chad Killingsworth > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's been 3 months since we rolled out our site that breaks in IE6 and > > we've had only one complaint. We actually expected more. > > (was the one complaint me, or one real user?) > > > > > Ahh but we digress ... > > But an interesting digression, none the less. My apologies to the > OP... > > -- Larry > > > > > Chad Killingsworth > > > On Nov 15, 8:48 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On Nov 15, 4:41 pm, Chad Killingsworth > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > No it doesn't - that's by design (or rather it was an intentional > > > > omission). > > > > >http://blogs.missouristate.edu/web/2010/02/17/internet-explorer-6-mus... > > > > You will have to convince a lot of corporate IT departments. If you > > > can do that you have more power than I do... > > > > Just means I can't use the site from work (or help you debug it, not > > > that you need my help). > > > > And not that I have any need to visit the missouristate.edu web page > > > from work. But I spend an awfully lot of my time at work, limited to > > > sites that support IE6. > > > > -- Larry > > > > > Chad Killingsworth > > > > > On Nov 15, 4:37 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 15, 12:48 pm, Chad Killingsworth > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I've done this to show the live positions of buses in a transit > > > > > > system. You can see it at > > > > > >http://search.missouristate.edu/map/?layer=shuttle > > > > > > FYI - that map doesn't work at all in IE6. > > > > > > -- Larry > > > > > > > Shuttles don't run all the time however, so you won't always see > > > > > > them. > > > > > > The code on that page is compressed with Closure-compiler, but there > > > > > > is a comment at the top of the script file telling you how to see > > > > > > the > > > > > > uncompressed source. My markers are updated once every 5 seconds. > > > > > > > Short of the story is, I wrote my own lightweight markers so that I > > > > > > could update the offset of the marker image on the fly. > > > > > > > Chad Killingsworth > > > > > > > On Nov 11, 5:33 am, "Alan Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > How many markers? Around 50. > > > > > > > > How far do they go? > > > > > > > > They go across a screen width, and then are deleted. Others > > > > > > > are created > > > > > > > to replace them. The map, in the background, is actually static. > > > > > > > > Thanks, Alan- Hide quoted > > > > > > > text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
