Google tells users to drop IE6

By Mark Kolich on January 8, 2009 8:00 AM | No TrackBacks
60px-Internet_Explorer_logo_old.pngFinally!  Google is urging its users to drop Internet Explorer 6.  So, what's the big deal?  Well, IE6 is a web developers nightmare; in a nutshell, it doesn't adhere to many web-standards used by other browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome) which makes developing web-applications for IE6 a complete disaster.  Further, IE6 often requires all sorts of ridiculous hacks and workarounds for styling and functionality that works out-of-the-box with with other browsers.  So far, in this lifetime, I have spent at least 100+ total combined hours fixing IE6 specific bugs.  It's been a huge splinter in my side, and I'm so happy to see IE6 die.  Rot in hell, Internet Explorer 6.

And BTW, if you're still using Internet Explorer 6, for the love of God please upgrade your browser to something more reasonable.

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A Silicon Valley native, Mark Kolich is a full-time Software Engineer, a casual entrepreneur, and a consultant for hire. A web technologies expert, his current focus is on building powerful and robust cloud-driven web-applications using Java, PHP, Perl, AJAX, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. His favorite programming languages are PHP, Java and JavaScript. He uses Linux, enjoys biking to work, loves building great software, and always writes elegant, readable, and maintainable code.

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