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- Posted: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:29:48 +0000
Panagrammic’s journal post subtitled “Earvil IE6”
I've described before that I had a voodoo doll that was the IE6 logo. Whenever you feel frustrated with IE6, then you can stick a pin in it, and it immediately causes some of the programmers in IE6 to get a foot cramp. Or, that is what the lady that sold it to me told me, and it makes me feel better to believe her. I hate IE6, and I'm not even the one that is most affected; it's those poor devs that do a lot of front end work that bear the brunt of the pain that is IE6.
How to put it in metaphorical terms? Let's say you're writing a critical term paper that has to be given a good grade by three teachers. Ms. F. Foxy (who used to be slim but has ballooned out with age) would be no problem, and she'd do a great job reading your paper and giving you constructive criticism. Mrs. Eiyee Seven would also be able to read your paper and give you great feedback. Ms. Eiyee Six, on the other hand, would a) deliberately misconstrue sentences, b) if she found a certain page she didn't like she would just rip it up into little pieces, and c) would take three times longer to read the paper than the other teachers.
So, what do you end up doing? You end up being super paranoid about Ms. Eiyee Six, and end up writing two different papers -- your standard paper and then a dumbed down one in exactly IE6's format. But, heck, it's two papers you had to write.
We're in this situation. As a kind of off-the-wall guess, up to 20% of a typical web dev's time can be spent dealing with IE6 issues. Or, to put it another way: if the Gaians that used it IE6 instead moved to another browser, we could do 20% more features in the same amount of time. (Omgwhat/xxKarutoNageWhateverxx had the great and hilarious idea of giving Firefox users extra gold just to promote a shift away from IE6, but we were unable to convince anyone to let us do it).
Nonetheless, we will soldier on. At current rates of decline, we might be able to drop IE6 in, say, 2012.
Anyway the reason I bring up IE6 is because vryhngry tracked down this nasty cache problem in IE6 where it was storing pages even though we had told it, honestly, don't store this, you need to get a fresh copy! Hopefully you IE6 users will see less glitches on the site.
How to put it in metaphorical terms? Let's say you're writing a critical term paper that has to be given a good grade by three teachers. Ms. F. Foxy (who used to be slim but has ballooned out with age) would be no problem, and she'd do a great job reading your paper and giving you constructive criticism. Mrs. Eiyee Seven would also be able to read your paper and give you great feedback. Ms. Eiyee Six, on the other hand, would a) deliberately misconstrue sentences, b) if she found a certain page she didn't like she would just rip it up into little pieces, and c) would take three times longer to read the paper than the other teachers.
So, what do you end up doing? You end up being super paranoid about Ms. Eiyee Six, and end up writing two different papers -- your standard paper and then a dumbed down one in exactly IE6's format. But, heck, it's two papers you had to write.
We're in this situation. As a kind of off-the-wall guess, up to 20% of a typical web dev's time can be spent dealing with IE6 issues. Or, to put it another way: if the Gaians that used it IE6 instead moved to another browser, we could do 20% more features in the same amount of time. (Omgwhat/xxKarutoNageWhateverxx had the great and hilarious idea of giving Firefox users extra gold just to promote a shift away from IE6, but we were unable to convince anyone to let us do it).
Nonetheless, we will soldier on. At current rates of decline, we might be able to drop IE6 in, say, 2012.
Anyway the reason I bring up IE6 is because vryhngry tracked down this nasty cache problem in IE6 where it was storing pages even though we had told it, honestly, don't store this, you need to get a fresh copy! Hopefully you IE6 users will see less glitches on the site.
Personally, I am using Windows XP and it comes pre-installed with the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and I feel that IE6 is a tool provided by Microsoft to download other web browser. So if you have IE6, you have to make its homepage firefox.com and I believe one day you will realize that you have to do what your homepage tells you to do – download Firefox!
Well, you can use whatever browser you are comfortable with just don’t use the [censored] IE6. Urgh, um, please?
I am a CS student and I know how it feels like to have issues regarding IE6. Developers who are considering to support IE6 have to provide an enormous amount of time baby-sitting IE6 and troubleshooting it.
IE6 is a very very poor, glitchy, deprived, unfortunate, underprivileged, unlucky, ill-fated, doomed, miserable, wretched, pitiful, and shameful version of Internet Explorer. IE7 is much better, and IE8 is better in performance department.
If you are still using IE6, do not use the Internet unless you download any of the following web browser. OK, it may be too harsh to do that, but it’s for your own good. smile
• Internet Explorer 7
• Internet Explorer 8
• Firefox 3 – very good for Windows users!
• Safari 3 & 4
• Opera
If you have seen anyone using IE6 please point them out to this thread so that they can realize how they are very unfortunate in using a desolate browser.
If 98-100% of Gaians stop using IE6, it will be like heaven for devs. Devs can spent more time in building and maintaining features we want instead of babysitting and spoonfeeding IE6.
