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 CSS and if/then statements. But our world of plug ins, widgets, third-party ad-ons and integration with legacy systems is far from perfect. I require an element of predictability and profitability that IE6 in particular threatens.
It takes a significant amount of time to perform a full user test on each browser, and accommodating the likes of Safari, IE6, IE7, IE8, FF2, FF3, and Opera can be a 2-day exercise, not too mention if there are issues that require changes and re-testing. It would be nice to eliminate just one of the "options" we as a society feel are necessary. If I have an option to kill something, IE6 is top of my list. Chad who still lurks on Cold Fusion forums like the bad smell from the lunch your 6th grade kid forgot in their bag over school holidays On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Steve Onnis <st...@cfcentral.com.au>wrote: > Today I thought I would log into my twitter account after 7 months mind > you and have a look around again thinking "maybe" I can put it to some use > (jury is still out on that one), but while I was in there I noticed in the > right hand column under "Trending topics" I noticed a topic names *"IE6 > Must die"*. Being human and curious by nature I thought I would check it > out and noticed some interesting comments like "IE6 must die for the web to > move on" and "I spent days trying to get sites looking vaguely similar in > IE6 to Firefox. IE IS EVIL! ". > > I guess my question is, should IE6 die? Is IE really evil? I hear a lot of > talk about how Microsoft browsers don't adhere to W3C standards and > developing for IE is such a pain and FireFox is a much better browser. How > much time do you really spend checking cross browser compatibility? Is it > really worth it? In my experience, I would say not a great deal. If you > stick to the standards I have found that you end up just tweaking the CSS a > little and most of if is because of positioning issues. That said, this > sort of issue is not only related to the IE browsers or IE6 specifically. > MAC in general are a pain because of the way they render fonts and have > there own style of "classic" fonts like Arial and so on. Issues like that > cause problems with padding and spacing, especially if you are looking for a > pixel perfect layout. At least with IE browsers you can use the IF/ELSE > technique to include specific CSS files to target specific versions of the > browser. > > There are CSS hacks for everything now, and honestly I don't think you need > them as long as you stick to simple standards code. A lot can be achieved > if you do this without having to sacrifice functionality or compatibility > for the plethora of browsers available. > > In the end, every browser, new and old has their quirks and to point the > finger and at one browser is unfair if not unjust. > > Steve > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
