I think it's a little late to be frothing over the mouth over a problem with IE6 that has apparently been corrected in IE7. How do you like it when users continue to carp over problems with an old version of something you've implemented, but refuse to upgrade to your latest version in which the problem has been fixed?
I would agree, other than the fact that IE6 will be around for eternity because of the huge delay between IE6 and 7: many many corporate sites are built around IE6 bugs (not to mention any code generated by MS tools during or since). Then there is the fact that IE7 will never be released for Windows 2000.
IE6 still has majority web share and until the big sites (google, yahoo, aol, myspace) actually put up a notice that they will not support the seven year old browser anymore on their main pages, the majority of people have no reason to ever change.
Mmmm, I sure understand your frustration. I'm not a CSS beginner, yet I've resorted to tables myself when time pressed and I couldn't get pure CSS layouts to work right in recent versions of all the major browsers. But I've always snarled in the direction of the browser makers who have put out buggy browser versions, mis-interpreted the specification, been slow to support it, or all of the above rather than at CSS itself. It seemed to me your complaint is actually more in that direction as well. It would be nice not to have to take IE6 into account, but there are still an awful lot of folks out there who use it (my boss for one!) so you still gotta support it. And that makes things messier than we could wish.
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je88484 replied ago:
I think it's a little late to be frothing over the mouth over a problem with IE6 that has apparently been corrected in IE7. How do you like it when users continue to carp over problems with an old version of something you've implemented, but refuse to upgrade to your latest version in which the problem has been fixed?
intangible replied ago:
I would agree, other than the fact that IE6 will be around for eternity because of the huge delay between IE6 and 7: many many corporate sites are built around IE6 bugs (not to mention any code generated by MS tools during or since). Then there is the fact that IE7 will never be released for Windows 2000.
IE6 still has majority web share and until the big sites (google, yahoo, aol, myspace) actually put up a notice that they will not support the seven year old browser anymore on their main pages, the majority of people have no reason to ever change.
rpalomo replied ago:
Mmmm, I sure understand your frustration. I'm not a CSS beginner, yet I've resorted to tables myself when time pressed and I couldn't get pure CSS layouts to work right in recent versions of all the major browsers. But I've always snarled in the direction of the browser makers who have put out buggy browser versions, mis-interpreted the specification, been slow to support it, or all of the above rather than at CSS itself. It seemed to me your complaint is actually more in that direction as well. It would be nice not to have to take IE6 into account, but there are still an awful lot of folks out there who use it (my boss for one!) so you still gotta support it. And that makes things messier than we could wish.
Tantalus replied ago:
CSS != Some Old Implementation of CSS
I wish there were more CSS libraries like there are for javascript to take care of all this for me.
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