Filed under: Developer, Microsoft, Browsers
Someone out there wants to save IE6
Save IE6 features a petition (signed by around 450 people when I checked), quotes from satisfied users, and links to download the browser. Funnily enough, some of the people in favor of keeping IE6 around are web developers, the very group that has been most vocal about being inconvenienced by Microsoft's older model. I'm not sure I buy the "how can IE6 be violating standards when it has essentially BEEN the standard for years?" argument. After all, standards change, and standards have seemingly passed IE6 by.
Updated: Ha! They totally got me. I knew this idea was crazy, but I didn't catch that it was also a really good April Fools' Joke, apparently by Pingdom.
What do you think, Download Squad readers? Should IE6 be saved, or is it time to let go?
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Bufsabre said 9:26AM on 4-02-2009
i say keep it. why you might ask. because im an asshole and just wanted to go against the grain
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bill cant fart said 9:13AM on 4-02-2009
....Are they serious?
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Dr Nno said 9:30AM on 4-02-2009
No they aren't. Try to download the browser if you have a doubt. Check also the dates of the campaign...
Lee Mathews said 9:39AM on 4-02-2009
Created by Pingdom and a load of fake endorsements on the sidebar? If that's not an April Fool's joke, I don't know what is.
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shamowfski said 9:40AM on 4-02-2009
Most of the consoles I run at work do not work in anything but IE6. And many of them will never be updated. So I say keep it, because I have to use it.
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Peppe Bergqvist said 9:47AM on 4-02-2009
"The SaveIE6 campaign was launched on April 1, 2009 and will last until April 1, 2010."
A one year long april fools joke, that's humour;-)
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Adam said 9:48AM on 4-02-2009
Download Squad has just fallen for an April fools' joke. Oh, now I see the update!
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Patrick #2 said 11:51AM on 4-02-2009
Actually I can see web developers actually doing this, all jokes aside. Because of IE6 they have more work. A webpage that is fully compliant, and thus renders perfectly in Opera and Safari, may render badly in IE6. Since IE6 is still used by many people, including my place of employment, the web developers have extra work to modify the code to work with IE6. If it weren't for IE6, there would be less work, and less web developers.
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leodavinci0 said 11:43AM on 4-02-2009
Actually I can see web developers actually doing this, all jokes aside. Because of IE6 they have more work. A webpage that is fully compliant, and thus renders perfectly in Opera and Safari, may render badly in IE6. Since IE6 is still used by many people, including my place of employment, the web developers have extra work to modify the code to work with IE6. If it weren't for IE6, there would be less work, and less web developers.
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alahmnat said 11:55AM on 4-02-2009
No. Just no. I'm a web developer and I absolutely despise having to waste valuable time (and it is wasted time... I could put it to much better use doing something *new*) constantly making sure stuff works in IE6.
The browser should be taken out behind the tool shed, shot, lit on fire, and then have its ashes launched into the effing *Sun*.
(Ask me if I'm bitter...)
m said 1:01PM on 4-02-2009
Let's make April, 1st the official 'IE6 day'
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J said 2:36PM on 4-02-2009
Unfortunately for those of us in large corporations, we are required to use IE6 to be compatible with internal applications or HR/CRM systems. I don't use it home but have to at work.
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WL said 8:30AM on 4-03-2009
Had to be a joke, even MS isn't drinking that kool-aid
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