IE6 finally dies
 

"This week, Internet Explorer 6 has finally been surpassed by Internet Explorer 8. This is a huge event for the Web. IE 6 is now the least popular IE version still in widespread use."

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/a...xplorer_6.html

:1orglaugh ie sucks!

Call me when Firefox takes majority share.

oh finaly .. I going to get a beer for it ..

IE 8 broke a lot of our shit.. if I had a dollar for every extra hour I've spent accomodating Microsofts 'latest and greatest' I'd be living lavish.

code your pages properly and you wont have any problems.

it is not the browser that makes the problems it is your code. :2 cents:

Aside from code, how hard is it to click update and run the latest software?

unfortunately IE6 is still in widespread use, 15.21% of web surfers, and it amazes me how many so called professional web designers and developers just ignore it - using transparent PNG graphics that 15% of viewers see with an ugly gray background, CSS positioned layouts that are all over the place in IE6, fonts that don't size correctly in IE6 -hell GFY is guilty as anybody, you can't even use the drop down search on this page in IE6.

15% is way too big a number to ignore.

IE6 was surpassed by IE8.. hmm I guess IE7 was a major fail

IE sucks big time after the upgrade to IE8. 7 was ok and the IE pro was ok.
Even worse, my latest FF keeps crashing after the lastest windows updates and getting IE8.
Every 10 mins. or so the bloody FF keeps crashing.

good, worst browser EVER.

Maybe that's why IE is still at 15% because people are TOO accommodating to support it. The more sites that stop supporting it and also at the same time tell the user that they MUST upgrade to a newer browser then the faster IE 6 will eventually truly die. If I use IE 6 and all of my favorite websites support it then there is ZERO incentive for me to change.

aside of IE6, what I don't get is this: in IE8 you have the option to render as IE7, IE8, or IE8 in compatibility view (for older browsers, like, say, Firefox, Safari or Chrome :1orglaugh ). Wouldn't it be way easier, logical, and way less stupid to render everything in "compatibility view for older browsers like FF, Safari, Chrome, yadda yadda yadda" and problem solved? Not like you need a rocket engineer to figure that out (or code the rendering modes, as we're at it)

Or, just for the sake of it, one rendering engine for all of IE versions so we don't need to code different versions for IE6, IE7 and IE8? Yeah, I'm that naive....

Blocking ie6 is kind a bad since that is only choice on old operative system like windows98,but again it could be replaced with firefox.

People shouldn't be using windows 98 anyways. And in fact less than 1/10 of 1% do.

dang, looks like ill need to finally upgrade from Windows ME :disgust

I use netscape

There's a large bar across every page at Youtube that only IE6 users see, explaining that they will stop supporting IE6 soon, and they provide links to upgrade to IE8, Firefox and Chrome.

IE is complete garbage.

I get thta on some sites even though I'm using Ie8. WTF kind of webmasters do they have/ then you have retarded sites like apple.com that tell me to get the latest version of Quicktime if I want to watch a movie trailer even though I DO in fact have the latest verison of Quicktime. There a big differnce between sites like Yhaoo who want people to switch from IE 6 but give them links to ALL browsers so they can CHOOSE and sites like apple.com which is basically trying to force you into switching to Safari. Isn't bad enough I have to have a POS crap thing like quicktime on my computer in the first place?

OMFG this is out of this world, I have to quote MetaMan:
"code your pages properly and you wont have any problems.
it is not the browser that makes the problems it is your code."

Since I agreed to him does that make me a looser?

Finally...it was the time huh?