Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-06 Thread Amos Shapira
I think I'd rather help the world get rod of IE 6 even in favour of another version of IE instead of being stuck with an excuse for broken web sites. At the end of the day we are stuck with broken web sites because people use IE 6, not because they use IE 8. On 07/03/2011 6:22 AM, "Oron Peled" wr

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-06 Thread Oron Peled
On Saturday, 5 בMarch 2011 23:59:45 Amos Shapira wrote: > Not directly Linux related but a source of a lot of pain for Linux users in > Israel: > http://ie6countdown.com/ We should direct people to proper replacements: * It's pretty transparent Microsoft tactics: Every copy of IE6 is a good ta

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-06 Thread Uri Even-Chen
2011/3/6 Amos Shapira > > A simple google shows that it's just ~6% in Israel who use IE6: > > http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/#/marketshare/il/web-browsers/internet-explorer/, > about twice the global average of ~3%. > > Interesting website. I checked Israeli and global stati

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-06 Thread Meir Michanie
May be the high number is from Israeli hackers using IE6 under wine in Linux. :) 2011/3/6 Amos Shapira : > On 6 March 2011 11:02, Omer Zak wrote: >> >> It was nice of them to omit the IE6 usage statistics for Israel, sparing >> us from the embarassment and shame. > > A simple google shows that it

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 March 2011 11:02, Omer Zak wrote: > It was nice of them to omit the IE6 usage statistics for Israel, sparing > us from the embarassment and shame. > A simple google shows that it's just ~6% in Israel who use IE6: http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/#/marketshare/il/web-brow

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 March 2011 10:51, Mordecha Behar wrote: > I saw this on Slashdot. > Does this mean that all of the crappy web pages designed by delinquent > morons in Israel are now going to conform to standards and render properly > in normal browsers? > You put it quite right :) they might polish the turd

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-05 Thread Omer Zak
It was nice of them to omit the IE6 usage statistics for Israel, sparing us from the embarassment and shame. On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 01:51 +0200, Mordecha Behar wrote: > I saw this on Slashdot. > Does this mean that all of the crappy web pages designed by delinquent > morons in Israel are now going

Re: IE6 Countdown

2011-03-05 Thread Mordecha Behar
I saw this on Slashdot. Does this mean that all of the crappy web pages designed by delinquent morons in Israel are now going to conform to standards and render properly in normal browsers? 2011/3/5 Amos Shapira > Not directly Linux related but a source of a lot of pain for Linux users in > Isra