I partially agree but consider that: 1. developers, all of them, would like to see IE6 death 2. if jQuery will loose IE6 compatibility, developers can only be stuck (they won't) or comunicate to the company that technologies are moving and IE6 support effort is not possible anymore (bloody hell system administrators, do they want to be stuck in the 2000 forever?) 3. jQuery code could only benefits from this choice (I can't believe I read IE6 charts in the 1.3.2 announcment, are you guys truly "waisting time" to improve a death browser?) 4. if this NO IE6 camapaign wont start from us, developers, we'll be stuck "forever" with IE6 cause they do not need to upgrade
Finally, technology HAS to be updated ... Windows 98 is not suppoerted anymore, they HAD to change PC ... here we are talking about a free download to follow the Web instead of kill it with all those missed features and unpaid effort to try to support it. I would expect decreased performances on purpose for IE6, rather than speed improvements to make this browser still usable. Btw, this is just my point of view, obviously :-) On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Fabio Buffoni <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Andrea Giammarchi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Good Stuff Guys, but I wonder when you'll decide to put the word END in >> front of "Supports IE6" ... any chance libraries will start to do it and >> accordingly remove dust and rubbish from their core? >> >> An announcement like: jQuery 1.4 will not support IE6 ... is it too much >> to ask, isn't it? >> > > > I work for a big tlc company, they explicitly ask for ie6 support. > This will force many people to stick to 1.3.x until ie6 usage will drop > under a threshold (2%? 1%?). [I'm looking forward for this moment] > I think this would be a risky move, because jQuery doesn't speak to people, > helps the developers. You're not saying to the people "hey, your browser > sucks! Use a newer one!", you're telling developers that you'll make they're > life more difficult. People only want to surf the internet, and jQuery could > possibly become an obstacle instead of an help. > I really really hope that ie6 will disappear soon, but i don't think that > jQuery now has enough power to push people towards that direction. Too many > still use it at work, where they can't install or change anything. > > Just my two cents. > > --Fabio > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
