Comments on: Why “proudly” not supporting IE6 is bad http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad web standards, usability & other girly stuff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:29:18 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sugar http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-125968 Sugar Tue, 19 May 2009 21:38:27 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-125968 @Gandy Labs Google added a button that promotes alternative browsers to IE6 user interface. Just that. Oh, and provided valid reasons for it. In this post, I'm referring to the people that make fun of IE6 users. Not at those who drop support for IE6. Don't be so hasty in pointing fingers and preaching. @Gandy Labs

Google added a button that promotes alternative browsers to IE6 user interface. Just that.

Oh, and provided valid reasons for it.

In this post, I’m referring to the people that make fun of IE6 users. Not at those who drop support for IE6.

Don’t be so hasty in pointing fingers and preaching.

]]> By: Gandy Labs http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-125936 Gandy Labs Tue, 19 May 2009 13:36:11 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-125936 Actually, Google DID do this. You should verify your statements first. http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40785/140/ Actually, Google DID do this. You should verify your statements first.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/40785/140/

]]> By: Pellepim http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-125866 Pellepim Mon, 18 May 2009 07:55:07 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-125866 Browsers should to as little extent as possible be the user's head ache. If you provide an online service - taking full responsibility to provide a rich experience for all user's is paramount. Stopping support of IE6 could mean as little as informing your user base that "IE6 is holding back our innovation speed. Feel free to use the service as best you can, it will probably work well enough. But feel free to switch browser or nag your sysop to upgrade." Browsers should to as little extent as possible be the user’s head ache. If you provide an online service – taking full responsibility to provide a rich experience for all user’s is paramount.

Stopping support of IE6 could mean as little as informing your user base that “IE6 is holding back our innovation speed. Feel free to use the service as best you can, it will probably work well enough. But feel free to switch browser or nag your sysop to upgrade.”

]]> By: konya web tasarım http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-112004 konya web tasarım Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:44:32 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-112004 Corporate users or not, n00bs or not, users want the content and the services we provide and most times they have made no conscious choice of browser before visiting our site. So we shouldn’t be blaming them or pointing out their negligence or ignorance. Corporate users or not, n00bs or not, users want the content and the services we provide and most times they have made no conscious choice of browser before visiting our site. So we shouldn’t be blaming them or pointing out their negligence or ignorance.

]]> By: lexx http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-111211 lexx Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:58:42 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-111211 <blockquote>We shouldn’t just use conditional comments to show a big fat “GET A PROPER BROWSER N00B”</blockquote> Amazing!! This is my ie6 strategy from now on. LOL

We shouldn’t just use conditional comments to show a big fat “GET A PROPER BROWSER N00B”

Amazing!! This is my ie6 strategy from now on. LOL

]]> By: Sugar http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-110987 Sugar Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:27:49 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-110987 @Titanas When you're building a service for the mainstream greek crowd, you have absolutely *no* choice than to work with IE6. <em>At least</em>. In Pathfinder.gr, we also get many IE5.5 and Netscape users. Try to work with that. @Titanas

When you’re building a service for the mainstream greek crowd, you have absolutely *no* choice than to work with IE6. At least.

In Pathfinder.gr, we also get many IE5.5 and Netscape users. Try to work with that.

]]> By: chrisbergr http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-110861 chrisbergr Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:34:39 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-110861 Finally there's someone out there with this right opinion! And if you are building professional websites, you should build it up from frameworks like 960grid (CSS) and jQuery (JS). So you won't have any problems and after an adaptation phase you will be quicker and more cost-effective than ever! (@Titanas) Finally there’s someone out there with this right opinion!
And if you are building professional websites, you should build it up from frameworks like 960grid (CSS) and jQuery (JS). So you won’t have any problems and after an adaptation phase you will be quicker and more cost-effective than ever! (@Titanas)

]]> By: gterez http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-110794 gterez Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:54:18 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-110794 Corporate users or not, n00bs or not, users want the content and the services we provide and most times they have made no conscious choice of browser before visiting our site. So we shouldn't be blaming them or pointing out their negligence or ignorance. Often those users are actually *clients* helping create (direct or indirect) revenue streams to us. And businesses that laugh at their clients don't go a long way. I do loathe putting in the extra effort for IE6, and what I've come to hate more than its bugs is its lack of full CSS 2.1 selector support. It often prevents us from achieving leaner, more semantically correct and forward-compatible HTML code. Corporate users or not, n00bs or not, users want the content and the services we provide and most times they have made no conscious choice of browser before visiting our site. So we shouldn’t be blaming them or pointing out their negligence or ignorance.
Often those users are actually *clients* helping create (direct or indirect) revenue streams to us. And businesses that laugh at their clients don’t go a long way.
I do loathe putting in the extra effort for IE6, and what I’ve come to hate more than its bugs is its lack of full CSS 2.1 selector support. It often prevents us from achieving leaner, more semantically correct and forward-compatible HTML code.

]]> By: John Tsevdos http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-110772 John Tsevdos Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:13:36 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-110772 hehe nice post and comments... Let's hope that IE8 will make some users to upgrade (at least to IE7).... hehe nice post and comments… Let’s hope that IE8 will make some users to upgrade (at least to IE7)….

]]> By: Gerasimos http://blog.sugarenia.com/archives/interesting/why-proudly-not-supporting-ie6-is-bad/comment-page-1#comment-110769 Gerasimos Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:20:30 +0000 http://blog.sugarenia.com/?p=844#comment-110769 As long as this page http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/default.mspx exists we do have to support it. As long as this page http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/default.mspx exists we do have to support it.

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