> IE6 should die a slow and painful death. Lack of > comprehensive support for widely used aspects of various web > languages, necessitating kludgey workarounds to make things > render at least moderately close to how the designers want > them to look. It's just plain rubbish. IE6 has lived long > past its sell-by-date and should be comprehensively dumped! > There's really no excuse for corporates to not update to IE7 or IE8.
My BBC Desktop PC has recently only just been updated to IE7 - last week I think it was. One of the reasons why IE6 survived so long in the BBC was that older parts of our intranet and essential web applications, were built in such a way that IE7+ didn't work. You might be surprised to hear that given the BBC's public website is cross platform but it was the case. So there you go. BBC managed to lock down its intranet to IE6. It's not hard to imagine that the number of other corporates that have done the same are not insignificant. The excuse therefore is that these things take time and money to sort out. And business don't like spending money. (Interesting Q - is the cost of sorting out the mess and just upgrading apps to be IE7 only, more or less than making them cross platform!) So I'd argue there is an excuse not to update. There's just no sensible reason why corporates got themselves into the mess in the first place. The BBC's policy now is, incidentally, to ensure that this doesn't happen again on its intranet. Cos it is after all, a bit embarrassing to be still using IE6 as the desktop :) Not that I did. I've got Firefox :) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
