fwiw, I dont think it is time to drop ie6 support yet.  Some
organizations require ie6 support, which would mean that they cannot
adopt jquery.  Give it another year.

On Feb 21, 5:39 pm, Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wasn't the memory leak issue IE<=6 only? I thought that was fixed in 7.
> That is a fairly big portion of compatibility code, half the library
> uses less efficient techniques to avoid memory leaks.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://nadir-seen-fire.com]
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> -MonkeyScript (http://monkeyscript.org)
> -Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
> -Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)
> -Soul Eater Wiki (http://souleater.wikia.com)
>
> Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
> > Diego,
> > it's just about pushing "from inside" to remove that obsolete browser from
> > the web.
> > John already explained the fact that IE6 tricks are almost the same (Sizzle
> > as well?)
>
> > Anyway, it was just a try :-)
>
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Diego Perini <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >> Andrea,
> >> dropping support for IE6 will not help reduce the code in any way. The
> >> same part of code is still needed in both IE7 and IE8.
>
> >> What are the advantages in only have support for IE7 and IE8 ?
>
> >> Diego
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