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Why anyone would still be using IE6 is a mystery to me.
Released in 2001
Superceeded by IE7 in 2006
And again by IE8 in 2009
Here we are in 2010.
Aside from snide remarks that Firefox is better, I am amazed that a version of IE that has been extinct for four years still has a 20% share of the browser market!
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... is what accounts for the remaining IE6 users
(OK, only half serious. Not referring to the people on this site)
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I don't know - something about upgrades.
I've had bad sh*t happen after some of their upgrades (like the infamous ZoneAlarm conflict).
And, since I use FireFox at work and SeaMonkey at home, why take a chance?
Or, to paraphrase an old saw:
If it ain't broke, Don't let them break it.
/xml> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
| "It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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Most, if not all software, is broken. We've just not noticed yet.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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I cannot imagine why would IE6 be so relevant for losing a survery-of-the-week on it.
Wake up! The Singularity is coming.
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... who would even care about this!
Let sleeping dogs lie!
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nmarcel wrote: relevant for losing a survery-of-the-week on it
Yeah completely Agreed on...
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(IMO) Those who are using this site(are believing in advance tech.), and will be least probables who are using IE6(still).
Believe Yourself™
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CP must be running low on suggestions for surveys... 
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ZTransform wrote: CP must be running low on suggestions for surveys...
Nah - I suggested two last week.
Maybe survey are being designed by a bot?
Or the site was hacked and this isn't the real survey?
/xml> "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
| "It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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Yeah, with this stupid survey, I think it's a random survery, I'm very disappointed 
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This was a Lounge post last week. Thats where the survey came from.
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nmarcel wrote: I cannot imagine why would IE6 be so relevant for losing a survery-of-the-week on it.
Then you don't do web development much. There are still way too many people using it.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Then you don't do web development much. There are still way too many people using it.
Yeah, like our company. It was just a week or two ago that an email came out warning users from upgrading their IE6 because it would break some business critical applications, most of which were installed just a year or two ago!  They warned that it was against company policy to upgrade without I.T. approval and doing so could result in your PC being re-imaged back to the "standard" office PC.
My cube neighbor (fellow developer) and I keep shaking our heads when we get these types of notices. He has IE8 (plus Chrome and FF3.6, which he uses most of the time), while I have IE7 (mostly due to the possible issues) and neither of us has seen any compatibility problems with most of the "version sensitive" software on the list. There are a few things that we don't have access to but the ones we do all have worked fine for us. 
So for now we continue to code our web apps (intranet use only) and make sure they works properly in IE6 (on a test PC) but also in later versions as well as other the other major browsers. We both get really annoyed with sites/apps that ONLY work properly in IE6 and cannot wait for one of our vendors to come out with a version that will NOT work in IE6 and will force us to upgrade. In the meantime at least we don't have to suffer. 
-Wayne
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Then you don't do web development much. There are still way too many people using it.
Exactly! Most web developers can't simply ignore 20% of the users.
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I cannot imagine how could deletion of all rows in a table and adding new rows with JS may break the browser. Neither could imagine what IE6 do for 15 seconds loading while browsers like FF take less than 0.5 seconds for the same request. Well if I am forced to develop for IE6 again I will quit web developing (or program my own browser) 
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IlluminateBG, it's most probable that you quit web developing than you develop your own browser like IE, Chrome.. 
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Nowhere is said that it should, it would and it must be like IE or chrome or firefox. Building a web browser is a easy task. Even so easy, that today internet mark-up lanugages and scripting is used even outside the browser. It is easy implementable.
However, it is clearly that one person cannot build an enterprice project (or if it can, he/she must be genius).
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