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phezDec 1st 2009 9:39AM
Your article should read "23% of the internet still not tech savvy as the rest of us". I used IE6 for many years without issue, because I'm not a layman, and most importantly, I don't click on links promising me free ipods.
The browser doesn't make you secure, common sense does. Firefox users still have to deal with security holes in plugins, such as Flash, just as any other browser does. If you think switching between browsers makes you a more competent internet user, you are wildly mistaken.
ITT sensationalist articles and internet apologetics.
(Unverified)Dec 1st 2009 9:43AM
If you read the opening paragraph, this is obviously aimed at the poor Internet architects that have had to write code for a crappy browser.
I make passing references to the poor security of (unpatched?) IE6 -- and it IS poor compared to IE8.
But mostly, this is about the Internet itself being held back by IE6.
Don't go on calling us sensationalist when your comment is perhaps more so.
(Unverified)Dec 1st 2009 9:52AM
I would totally agree with you , with one minor caveat. A browser does matter when virals like CodeRed are loose. Or when a website is hacked and has been repurposed to ship malware et .. someone like downloadsquad is hacked to send malware and i visit their site. In the case of a website that exploits older browsers (whom have long ended support cycle) they are more vulnerable. So yes having a newer up to date browser matters, but as you mentioned.... it is rare and in between to get infected when you browse the web with caution.
(Unverified)Jan 8th 2010 1:04PM
IE6 is a bad browser. This is the opinion of EVERY single client side web developer in the world, not because they are being elitist but because it is full of bugs that slow down and, therefore, increase the costs of web development. Web code that is IE6 compatible is considerably more complexed, less consistent and less powerful. Historically, its market domination was also responsible for the development of a number of awful, IE6 only, code practices used by very short sighted developers. Until the number of people that use IE6 falls below 2 or 3%, web developers will be shackled to it, and the web with it. The reason that people like you don't see the big deal is that people like me have to put an enourmous amount of effort to make sure that people like you can still look at web sites in this 9 year old browser. I have spent years accumulating knowledge about the seemingly endless list of bugs in IE6 and knowing every work around or hack that is necessary to make it behave: all that knowledge will be useless when IE6 finally goes, but you cannot imagine the air-punching joy that will be felt by myself and by developers across the world when it does.
phezJan 8th 2010 1:18PM
And I assume you magically forgive yourself for having to work with the rendering differences between webkit and gecko based browsers because the apps based around these engines are superior to IE in general?
Right.
And yes, if it isn't obvious to you yet, I am more like a "person like you" rather than a "person using IE6". Because if you really think about it, who still uses IE6? Why do they still use IE6? What reason must there be that computers still run IE6? Think about that before becoming, ahem, sensationalist. re: my original post.