On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:31:03 +0100, Edward Lynn
<edward.l...@randluk.co.uk> wrote:
Hi everyone,
For me the IE6 issue is to a degree self perpetuating. We all do our
best to
support IE6 and provide an experience which is as little degraded as
possible, and in doing that very thing, we give IE6 users no reason to
upgrade. If everyone started not to ignore ie6, but to give them a
degraded
experience, and advise the user what they are missing out on, perhaps
these
users would start have have more of a reason to upgrade.
Ed
Ed,
This is not aimed as a personal comment, just my general thoughts about
browsers.
You are only seeing this from a 'Browser' point of view, what about the
numerous people who have an elderly system that is not even capable of
running something like IE 8.
I still use 3 P3 machines with Win 2000, I can't go above IE 6 without
upgrading the OS. XP will run on a P3 machine, but for sure neither Vista
nor Win 7 will work.
I can no longer buy a new copy of XP, therefore to upgrade my browser I
would have to buy a new system.
If my systems will cope with all the other major browsers, is seeing bells
and whistles in IE a reason to spend large sums of cash. Not to mention
the environmental aspect of throwing away solidly working machines just
for the sake of a browser.
The situation is soon to become even more complex, Microsoft will only
release IE 9 for Vista and above. Somewhere it was reported that XP still
accounts for around 64% of the Windows user base.
A real browser from Microsoft could solve all the problems, but it would
need to be unbundled from the operating system and have as wide a reach as
say FireFox and Opera for system requirements.
I have Win 7 capable machines, but why should I need to buy new OS just
for the sake of a browser, those machines perform every function that I
need in all other respects.
Just what are all the wondrous features that an IE 6 user is missing out
on, how essential are they to the function of dissemination of
information. What happens as the instances of bandwidth capping become
more widespread.
Much of what we are fed these days is 'bloat', from the operating systems
to web ads and more. I started with a Sinclair ZX81 with a massive
1Kilobyte of memory, we've moved forward a long way, but is it all for the
better?
Duncan
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