[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
IE is pure evil, even IE8 is still pure evil, because every other mainstream browers works the same... IE is just plain quirky, even in 8 IE6 is and old lame duck an simply wasn't designed to handle heavy complex javascript and things like the standard event model don't work ( think jquery live

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-17 Thread Steve Onnis
:37 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse IE is pure evil, even IE8 is still pure evil, because every other mainstream browers works the same... IE is just plain quirky, even in 8 IE6 is and old lame duck an simply wasn't

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-17 Thread Mark Mandel
To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse IE is pure evil, even IE8 is still pure evil, because every other mainstream browers works the same... IE is just plain quirky, even in 8 IE6 is and old lame duck an simply wasn't

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-17 Thread Zac Spitzer
July 2009 5:37 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse IE is pure evil, even IE8 is still pure evil, because every other mainstream browers works the same... IE is just plain quirky, even in 8 IE6 is and old lame duck

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-17 Thread Barry Beattie
] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse IE is pure evil, even IE8 is still pure evil, because every other mainstream browers works the same... IE is just plain quirky, even in 8 IE6 is and old lame duck an simply wasn't designed to handle heavy complex javascript and things

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-16 Thread Andrew Myers
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

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-16 Thread Barry Beattie
so what you guys are saying is that you're hopeful that Microsoft is successful in promoting IE8 ... yes? 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.

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-16 Thread Barry Beattie
I should also point out that the SOE of the enterprise environment uses IE6 (thousands of machines) there is a pilot and review (run by the department next door to me) of evaluating for deployment ... wait for it ... IE7 ... On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Barry

[cfaussie] Re: OT : Friday discussion To browse or not to browse

2009-07-16 Thread Chad Renando
I cringe when I hear the word just. As a production manager, I hear a lot of just related to IE6 specific tweaks (it will 'just' take me an hour or two), which cumulate to thousands of dollars per year and significant schedule pain. Yes, in a perfect world IE6 would be managed through perfect