On 3/30/07, Lee Eschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Ippolito wrote: > > . . . Have you found that many users are using IE6 with ActiveX disabled but > > JavaScript turned on? Shouldn't this number be decreasing > > significantly now that IE7 is basically a forced upgrade and has XHR > > built-in? It seems like it may be a little late to start caring about > > a relatively obscure configuration of a dying browser. . . . > > > Would that it were a dying browser! IE7 is only a forced upgrade if you > are running on Win 2000 and up. Unfortunately, in my area, and I would > guess throughout the world, there are many people still running on > low-powered win 98, and even Win 95, machines, who are not likely to > upgrade above IE6 and don't know about alternative browsers. This > includes machines at the local library, as well as school and home machines.
Yes, they exist, but it's certainly dying. Maybe not as fast as everyone would like. I was referring specifically to the combination of IE6 and an obscure configuration, not IE6 in general. > I am in the latter parts of the process of updating the website of our > local weekly newspaper (small town rural Oregon, USA) and our stats show > that of all browsers, two-thirds are still IE6. Fortunately, virtually > all of them still have JS enabled, making workarounds for equivalent > functionality unnecessary. I had truly hoped that IE7 would take over > and my work would be much simplified, but no such luck. That was my point. You have to go out of your way to disable ActiveX. The people who have a reason to disable ActiveX are probably also disabling JavaScript. The iframe workaround only applies to an unlikely combination of IE6 with Disabled ActiveX, but with JavaScript left enabled. The number of users this applies to is almost certainly small and monotonically decreasing. -bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
