With the debut of Internet Explorer 8 and the overall leading market share of IE7 — we will begin to see IE6 erode into history at a much quicker pace. Yes, let’s all praise the Lord for second. Done? Ok — IE6 came out roughly around September 2001, and has been driving web developers nuts ever since. Just last week, I cursed it’s foul name as I had to debug a problem that only surfaced in it’s vile window. Before we officially warn you about the door hitting your ass on the way out, let’s reminisce about some of the bad times we had:
Security — Sad.
Internet Explorer 6’s golden age, around 2002 and 2003 where it captured about 95% of the browser market unfortunately led to it being the main target of hackers, spy ware, phishing rings and nefarious scammers across the globe. Active X and Active scripting really just opened the door for these vile bastards and I think Microsoft products can be directly credited for phrases like “identity theft”.
Standards — Pathetic.
The very people slaving away each day making web pages for your browser are the same ones that curse your name! From the noted lack of support for CSS, PNG files and sufficient debugging tools — is this any way for the leader of the market to act? We had to wait for late 2006 until IE7 to come out and even that wasn’t enough! We’ve been suffering since 2001 for God sakes (and still am *cough*cough*)!
Crashing — Unforgivable.
If you can’t stand the heat stay out of the kitchen! Unfortunately, IE6 runs out of the kitchen hides under the bed. Because of all the security fixes that came out one after another, the browser was often left kind of unstable. The reasons it crashed ranged from new security fixes, innovative CSS, Flash and Shockwave rendering and just not being able to handle multiple windows. Considering IE7 in 2006 was the first to get tabbed browsing, we’d have liked our primary content delivery system to the masses be more stable for the users we develop for.
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out — farewell, IE6.
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Great Article! I still deal with IE 6 on a daily basis and have come very close to jumping out a window.
Here’s another article regarding IE 6…spread the word.
http://www.bringdownie6.com/
IE6 haters have always been pretty pathetic. They remind me of Mac boys. The new generation of browsers all benefited from IE’s short comings, implementing security features based on known IE security hacks. Like you can’t make viruses for a Mac.
Spread the word.. These are the same guys who made google a monster. Anyone who isn’t a complete idiot knows that IE, like Windows suffer from backwards compatibility issues. I recently installed IE8, I never used 7 but Maxthon and Avant are still reporting IE7.
Please guys STFU and do some developing, stop the hate.
This is the design website for haters!
When writing this, I was actually careful to leave IE7 out of this as it has not been killing me for several years like IE6 has.
When I review IE8 properly, I’ll dish out the love if it’s good. Fair enough?!
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