Gabriele Romanato wrote:
If you continue to support IE 7 and lower, malware creators will be very
grateful to you. You make them life easier and help them to go on with
infecting people's computers or stealing their credentials or identities.
This is total nonsense. The "you" at the start of sentence two is not
making life easier for malware creators, nor helping them to infect
people's computers or steal their credentials or identities. The
malware creators will create their own pages, not hijack those who
have chosen to support IE6 by providing content that is compatible
therewith.
I do not want to respond to the flames of someone who claims to be THE
professional.
People who know me since 2006 know also my skills.
I'll take the offense and that's all. The point of my post is:
1. security
2. usability
1. People generally don't patch neither browsers or operating systems so
that MS has been forced to make automatic updates very, very sticky and
difficult to disable.
If you run an obsolete browser, then it's very likely that you get
infected, somehow, some day. Point one.
2. Poor usability is harmful for users. Point two.
Also accessibility is affected.
None of these points have any relevance as to whether we, as content
creators, should continue to create content that is compatible with
IE6. IE6 may be a cr@p browser and may be riddled with security
holes, but by providing content that is compatible with it we are
not making it any worse or any less secure.
Dropping support means simply stopping providing pages that look well in IE
6 and 7.
No, it does not. There is no need to design pages that exploit every last
Angstrom unit of CSS functionality. Web pages are about /communication/,
not about looking like a work of art. We don't /need/ rounded corners,
arcane selectors, or generated content, any more than we /need/ HTML 5.
Design conservatively, use HTML 4.01 Strict and basic CSS, and worry more
about whether the final page communicates well than whether it could win
the Turner prize in some parallel universe.
Simply provide a page with less appeal and functionalities.
It's better to have one page less appealing, than an hundred users infected.
Final point.
/We/ are not infecting the users, Gabriele : we are simply ensuring
that they are not disenfranchised simply because they cannot, or will
not, use a superior browser.
Philip Taylor
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