Recently, the cry to ban IE6 from the our lives is becoming louder and louder. Lots of sites are being made to garner support to once and for all rid the world of Internet Explorer 6. A lot can be said against it, as most of the sites on the bottom of this post will point out, so I’m not going to go in depth on this. All I can say, from a web developer’s point of view, is that I fully support these causes. It would make my life a lot easier.
Every application I create is made on an IE7 machine (my laptop). Unfortunately, some customers are still running IE6 and about 99,99% of the time the application fails because of it. Go develop on IE6 then you might say, but that is simply not done if you ask me. Just to give you an impression of why it shouldn’t be done I want to show some stuff we did in the year 2001:
- We gamed on the original Xbox and the Gamecube
- We played games that needed needed a 230 MHz Pentium, some needed a whopping 450 MHz Intel Pentium III..
- We had a Nokia monochrome mobile phone
- We coded websites in Frontpage 2002 (I hope you didn’t..)
All of these things are things you wouldn’t want to be caught doing in this day and age.. Then why still use IE6? It really makes no difference with the things mentioned above, in fact, switching to a newer version shouldn’t even be all that big a deal, it’s free!
Stop this monster now!
