Look, we're moving into a new generation of web browsers. It's time to upgrade - it's easy and free. We shouldn't spend our time/resources trying to support ten-year-old technology. Even Microsoft is trying to get people to stop and it's the responsibility of any popular website to support modern technologies.
Anytime I hear 'developing for IE6' I cringe. If the time developers spent on supporting IE6 went toward modern features, we'd have some really great websites. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson < rnnel...@clarkson.edu> wrote: > Remember Rule #1: You can't solve social problems using technical means. > The social problem is that people keep using IE6. The technical means are to > protect them by pandering to IE6 security lapses. The social solution is to > tell people "FFS, STOP USING IE^111". > > For all the reasons Brion gave below, I support the idea of checking to see > if the browser is IE6, and if it is, then give them a header that says "We > can no longer provide you with a secure browsing experience because you are > using Internet Explorer 6" followed by a dump of the raw wikitext with any > angle brackets replaced by < and >. > ________________________________________ > From: wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [ > wikitech-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] on behalf of Brion Vibber [ > br...@pobox.com] > > For 1) I'm honestly a bit willing to sacrifice a few IE 6 users at this > point; the vendor's dropped support, shipped three major versions, and is > actively campaigning to get the remaining users to upgrade. :) But I get > protecting, so if we can find a workaround that's ok. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
