jQuery isn't only for web apps. It's also for smaller websites. And it'd be a shame for show/hide to stop working in older browsers when it has no reason to.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] DBJDBJ wrote: > @tres > > Voice of reason. Thanks > > @all > > Solution I am proposing will work even for M$FT. If and when (sort-of- > a) supporting IE4-7 becomes not-feasible. They did the same solution > but for XP. Instead of supporting legacy OS they delivered a virtual > environment for legacy OS apps. I simply am suggesting the same for > legacy web apps. > > jQuery and IE old : I am wondering why mainstream jQ supports IE6 > actually? How many developers actually need and use that? Who and when > will be developing an web app today , that will run on IE6 too ? 99% > of web apps developed on jQ are new apps for new browsers. If I > develop web app today, using jQ or not, I would certainly not promise > it will run on IE6, or IE7. Certainly there are large customers still > using IE6 for their corporate intranets, but they can introduce FF or > Chrome in parallel. > The number of developers actually developing today and supporting IE6 > is very small. jQuery or not. In any case they should be easy to > count. > I vote for droping IE6 and IE7 support from jQuery. In the same time > there should be a separate version that will support them. But not for > ever. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
