I'm sure that's similar everyone thought 4 years ago when NS4 was orphaned for Mozilla. At least it's better than IE3 and NS3...
The problem is that we have already had IE6 for a while now, and the whole industry has been stuck waiting for them to fix some crucial bugs (hopelessly broken box model anyone?) that are creating huge obstacles to progress. Now we have to wait much longer for every IE user on earth to upgrade beyond XP. Do you really think that every Windows user is going to upgrade in the next 5 years? What it comes down to is the fact that IE is no longer free. Kill the competition then raise prices, and we as web developers are going to be paying for it for the forseeable future. I don't know about you, but developing for a platform that isn't progressing is not where I want to be. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 10:11:58 AM, you wrote: JD> Well, if we are stuck with developing in a browser for 5 years (I doubt JD> it) then it's a hell of a lot better to be stuck with IE 6 than with JD> Netscape 4. JD> At least in my opinion. JD> Jim Davis JD> President, http://www.depressedpress.com JD> Webmaster, http://www.firstnight.org JD> Webmaster, http://www.cfAdvocacy.org JD> Senior Consultant, http://www.metlife.com >> -----Original Message----- >> From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:06 AM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: IE6 is the new NS4 >> >> http://www.web-graphics.com/mtarchive/000881.php >> >> I've finally gotten around to reading all the analysis of all the big >> news last week about IE, and my first response is to hate Microsoft >> and their buggy browser, and my second is to perhaps I should resign >> myself to fealty to the Microsoft empire. This is so similar to >> when Netscape killed NS4 it's scary. Web developers were stuck >> developing for an incredibly buggy browser for years after it was end >> of lifed. >> >> Thankfully, since the announcement of Royale, I've started a low-level JD> PR >> campaign for Flash here at work and it's working. We have been pretty >> Flash resistant in the past, but I'd rather develop for Flash than get >> stuck developing for IE6 for the forseeable future. I just hope Royale >> is all it's cracked up to be... >> >> -- >> jon >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> JD> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
