Interesting discussion. Personally, the main issue I have with IE6 these days is I have a lot of users on my site who want to print everything out and I'm often getting people complaining about the right margin getting cut off. You can always guarantee these are IE6 users. I create a separate print stylesheet that only has percentage based widths in it, rather than pixel based it fixes the issues in IE6. But IMHO it's a nuisance having to do that when the problem has already been addressed in more modern browsers.
Not sure that I agree with your comment that it's unfair to target this browser though. The fact is that it's old technology - there have been two newer IE releases with address a lot of its issues, and there are many other alternatives. The real problem as far as I am concerned is that people using IE6 are often using operating systems which Microsoft will no longer support, but still expect web sites to support them. The good news is that it is slowly dying of old age as far as I can tell...we're down to about 23% of our users on it. Hopefully just like $1 and $2 notes and copper coins they'll all be out of circulation soon. :-))) Andrew. 2009/7/17 Steve Onnis <st...@cfcentral.com.au> > Today I thought I would log into my twitter account after 7 months mind > you and have a look around again thinking "maybe" I can put it to some use > (jury is still out on that one), but while I was in there I noticed in the > right hand column under "Trending topics" I noticed a topic names *"IE6 > Must die"*. Being human and curious by nature I thought I would check it > out and noticed some interesting comments like "IE6 must die for the web to > move on" and "I spent days trying to get sites looking vaguely similar in > IE6 to Firefox. IE IS EVIL! ". > > I guess my question is, should IE6 die? Is IE really evil? I hear a lot of > talk about how Microsoft browsers don't adhere to W3C standards and > developing for IE is such a pain and FireFox is a much better browser. How > much time do you really spend checking cross browser compatibility? Is it > really worth it? In my experience, I would say not a great deal. If you > stick to the standards I have found that you end up just tweaking the CSS a > little and most of if is because of positioning issues. That said, this > sort of issue is not only related to the IE browsers or IE6 specifically. > MAC in general are a pain because of the way they render fonts and have > there own style of "classic" fonts like Arial and so on. Issues like that > cause problems with padding and spacing, especially if you are looking for a > pixel perfect layout. At least with IE browsers you can use the IF/ELSE > technique to include specific CSS files to target specific versions of the > browser. > > There are CSS hacks for everything now, and honestly I don't think you need > them as long as you stick to simple standards code. A lot can be achieved > if you do this without having to sacrifice functionality or compatibility > for the plethora of browsers available. > > In the end, every browser, new and old has their quirks and to point the > finger and at one browser is unfair if not unjust. > > Steve > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
