Internet Explorer 6 receives a pre-emptive funeral

[wpswart006]

Love the reference to Do not go gentle in to a good night.

 

[Jan]

Is the pointless rant over yet? Oh, yes. Good.

The article really wasn't intended as a rant, but to have some fun on a Friday which coincided with the 9th birthday of IE6. That said, thank you for your counter-rant, you made some good points about graceful degradation.

Much of my work is in the form of contract work for South Africa's 'premium' design agencies, but not 1 of the many project I've done for them has ever allowed for graceful degradation. It must always look and work exactly the same in every browser.

It's not just the agencies fault either, it's their clients that can't see the value of graceful degradation, and why should they ...unless of course it directly affects their pockets. Ideally they should be charged say 30% more - maybe that'll do it

This has been my experience as well. While it's not all the fault of agencies, they aren't blameless either. Web designers are generally unaware of the technical issues developers face and as such don't include degradation as part of the pitch to the client. Developers are typically only brought in after the customer has accepted the designs.

I enjoyed the Dylan Thomas references

Love the reference to Do not go gentle in to a good night.

Thank you, thank you

 

[Tns]

i for one will not miss IE6

 

[EtienneK]

I know some of the big banks in SA have already started migrating to IE7 (Why not 8, I don't know??!).

But 6 must die. And it must die quick.

For enterprises that need backward compatibility, the solution is easy: Install IE6 on a Citrix instance and give everyone access to it that need to access old legacy systems.

RIP IE6. You will not be missed.