Comments on: Browser support – the death of IE6? http://hereinthehive.com/2008/08/28/browser-support-the-death-of-ie6/ Occasional blog of Dan Donald, a web developer in Manchester UK Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dan http://hereinthehive.com/2008/08/28/browser-support-the-death-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Dan Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:38:41 +0000 http://www.hereinthehive.com/2008/08/28/browser-support-the-death-of-ie6/#comment-137 I'm with you on that. It seems like a lot of people are starting to offer IE6 compatibility as additional service instead of cater for that automatically, which is fairly indicative of where developers would like to see IE6 support go. I also caught this recently, which won't help developer's outlook on the future of IE: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/hakon_lie_ie8_interoperability/ I’m with you on that. It seems like a lot of people are starting to offer IE6 compatibility as additional service instead of cater for that automatically, which is fairly indicative of where developers would like to see IE6 support go.

I also caught this recently, which won’t help developer’s outlook on the future of IE: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/hakon_lie_ie8_interoperability/

]]> By: Phil Thompson http://hereinthehive.com/2008/08/28/browser-support-the-death-of-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Phil Thompson Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:28:06 +0000 http://www.hereinthehive.com/2008/08/28/browser-support-the-death-of-ie6/#comment-136 You simply can't drop IE6 support for most sites, yet - there's still too many people still using it. I think we've reached a point where sites have to still work in IE6 but perhaps you shouldn't spend too much time perfecting the design - as long as it works and isn't completely broken you're ok. It's good to see IE8 having better support but IE7 isn't too bad just lacking still. For me, rounded corners (border-radius) and opacity would be great to have in IE8. You simply can’t drop IE6 support for most sites, yet – there’s still too many people still using it. I think we’ve reached a point where sites have to still work in IE6 but perhaps you shouldn’t spend too much time perfecting the design – as long as it works and isn’t completely broken you’re ok.

It’s good to see IE8 having better support but IE7 isn’t too bad just lacking still. For me, rounded corners (border-radius) and opacity would be great to have in IE8.

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