I recently read a blog post (I think one of the Ajaxian guys) that said maybe the first Monday of the month, we could point out that modern browsers work better. I think an alert would be overkill, unless the site really is unbearable in IE6. But maybe its is about time for a little star or something pointing out that the browser sucks. After all, if we can get the IE6 clients now to a negligible level, a lot more time will go into real production work rather than accommodating a browser that now sticks out like a pus-filled thumb.
Sure, a lot of time it's IT or some enterprise software holding back the upgrades, but users are able to apply a bit of pressure sometimes. On Jun 9, 1:29 pm, "Josh Nathanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any kind of public facing site has to support IE6, especially if it's > ecommerce. It's not acceptable to tell potential customers to go download > another web browser. Most people will just go shop somewhere else, and > probably never come back. Nothing leaves a bad taste in people's mouths like > being told immediately they have to go download something. > > At least we have jQuery to help us with IE6 support. > > -- Josh > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Guy Fraser > To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 1:04 PM > Subject: [jQuery] [OT] Re: [jQuery] Re: anti IE6 > > MorningZ wrote: > > Any many huge corporations and govt branches are slow to update as > well.... it's certainly not their fault, so why would you > purposefully annoy them? > Because if you don't annoy them, they keep using IE6, and we have to keep > putting up with the pain of supporting it. > > Many web developers still have the crazy notion that we should support IE6. > However, doing so only causes us more pain because people using IE6 > mistakenly believe that they have a good browser and therefore never get rid > of it so the pain continues. > > The only feasible way to kill off IE6 is to simply stop supporting it. When > the customer or end-user complains, explain that their browser is broken and > that they should upgrade to a free, modern browser like Firefox, Opera or > Safari/Webkit. > > Think about it, if your car was broken would you expect all the roads in > the country to be modified to counter the broken car? No, it would be > ludicrous. The broken car would be fixed or destroyed for the good of > humanity. > > Yet, it seems, in the web world we continue this crazy self-destructive act > of supporting the most widespread and heavily broken browser the entire > planet has ever encountered. It has to stop. > > There's nothing stopping large organisations from installing a modern > browser alongside IE6 - IE6 can then still be used for their broken intranet, > the modern browser can be used for everything else. > > Visit:http://www.savethedevelopers.org
