On 3/15/2011 2:10 PM, Gabriele Romanato wrote:
If you continue to support IE 7 and lower, malware creators will be very
grateful to you. You make them life easier and help them to go on with
infecting people's computers or stealing their credentials or identities.
I do not want to respond to the flames of someone who claims to be THE
professional.
People who know me since 2006 know also my skills.
I'll take the offense and that's all. The point of my post is:
1. security
2. usability
1. People generally don't patch neither browsers or operating systems so
that MS has been forced to make automatic updates very, very sticky and
difficult to disable.
If you run an obsolete browser, then it's very likely that you get
infected, somehow, some day. Point one.
2. Poor usability is harmful for users. Point two.
Also accessibility is affected.
Dropping support means simply stopping providing pages that look well in IE
6 and 7. Simply provide a page with less appeal and functionalities.
It's better to have one page less appealing, than an hundred users infected.
Final point.
It strikes me that the different positions and views on this can be
summed up with "People don't always do what they should, but more often
than not they do what they can." While I may have a clear idea of the
ends toward which I ought to be moving and the ends toward which clients
ought to be moving, if the means are lacking, the means are lacking.
Bill B
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