Anti-IE6 Ads: You Wouldn't Drink Old Milk

[Hunter844]

The expiration date on milk is where I draw the line.


Also, a IE6 mode sounds like a good way to get around this crap...in Crome, Firefox, or Opera.

 

[Silmarunya]

[citation][nom]Hunter844[/nom]The expiration date on milk is where I draw the line.Also, a IE6 mode sounds like a good way to get around this crap...in Crome, Firefox, or Opera.[/citation]

Yeah. I'm glad it exists in both FF and Chrome, but even in Opera I've never encountered a web page half worth viewing that doesn't support Opera perfectly.

Oh wait, there is one: Office Live. MS and standards compliance still isn't quite there yet...

 

[hixbot]

I drink your IE6, I drink it up!

 

[applegetsmelaid]

IE is not milk. Milk comes from breasts. IE does not come from breasts. However, IE lets me see breasts, and thats good enough for me. IE6 can do that, and thats all I'm worried about.

 

[dman157]

9 year old milk?

I guess I should uninstall firefox in 20 days or else ill find milk curds in my case =!

 

[jalek]

I think the 35,000 seats where I work still suppress windows updates for IE due to compatibility issues. IE6 all the way!

 

[JustinHD81]

It was rather amusing that when buying my mobile phone through Telechoice that when they had problems with Optus's website for partner sales that the support service would not give them a Job ID because they weren't running IE6,which basically meant that when they then tried to help me buy the phone through the call center the center almost refused to help them as they didn't have a Job ID with tech support, all because they weren't running IE6 (think they were running IE7/8) all whilst I was sitting there waiting to buy my phone (on a 24 month contract) thankfully for the sales assistant I was quite a patient customer.

 

[marsax73]

I personally like IE7. IE8 on my work laptop is pure death (running XP SP2 no less).

 

[Codesmith]

I can understand why a business might be stuck with IE6 for certain uses.

Is there an easy way to lock down IE so that it can only visit a list of specific websites.

Then workers can use IE when they have to but will be forced to switched to a modern browser for everything else.

 

[xrodney]

Reason business users still run IE6 is because some application wont run in FF,opera or IE7+ (thanks to M$ and their avoidance of web standards).

I'm primary using FF at work, but also have IE6 as backup in case something don't work in FF.

 

[gmarsack]

Funny how MS pushes ads to encourage IE6 users to move away from it but force MS contract developers like myself to support the pile of crap browser. If you want people to upgrade to a newer version, STOP ENABLING THEM BY SUPPORTING IT IE6 STILL!!!! I say, if they can't view a web page because it's broken, I would think that would be enough encouragement. Doh!

 

[Guest]

Yeah... I don't use IE for about 5 years. But I would drink 12 year-old scotch.

 

[eyemaster]

It's just a browser... think about it. You're still alive and healthy at the end of the day, the window to the internet won't cure cancer...

 

[zak_mckraken]

I don't know why they compare a browser to food. I mean, you wouldn't listen to a 9-years old CD right? Oh, wait...

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]yao[/nom]Can I assume XP's market share is also around 17.6%?[/citation]
I would guess that XP still has a market share greater than Vista/7 combined.

 

[sonnytchan]

I am not defending MS. But stating the fact. I use IE6 on my work PC and I use Firefox on my home PC. The reason why I use IE6 at work is because our company's Intranet and some of our legacy web-based applications only run on IE6. So, as much as I want to put the last nail on IE6, or as much as MS want to do so, some corporations are just not ready to do so.

 

[C00lIT]

Meh, some people still run old P4 Celerons with 512MB of ram, and for a regular user, who pushes excel 2003, email and basic internet... IE6 is FAR Superior as it takes up a lot less Ram.

It runs fast, so for basic users... Who cares.

I just use Firefox to each their own.

 

[lafery]

[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]You shouldn't have to code for a particular web browser. You code to a web standard. Then all browsers comply to that standard. Too bad Microsoft bollocks up IE6 so bad with it's deviation from standards. IE6 is it's own proprietary web "standard" and if you coded an app for IE6, it won't run on any browser other than IE6. Talk about vendor lock-in. This should be a lesson to developers everywhere to ONLY support open standards.[/citation]

In large corporation - or even the government - developers don't decide. Back in the days, Microsoft gave most of these companies and government agencies special deals if they used their stuff only (such as IE6). That's how they took over so much of the market to begin with. For example, where I work its against company policy to even use any other browser than IE6.

As you say, now we're stuck with IE6 coz its not compatible with anything else. Which is ironic considering, sooner or later companies will have to move away from IE6 and they won't do the same mistake again. Once they finally decide to commit the hundred of millions needed to switch away from IE6...

But I bet ya we (those who have no choice) will still be stuck with IE6 for at least a couple years.

 

[dainsane1]

still use ie6 one one computer. it's a p2 laptop with 6gb hard drive and winxp sp1

anything more recent would render the computer useless. its my bed side computer used for music, solitaire, minimal browsing, and if i get one of those calls that requires a computer and i don't want to get out of bed for PEBKAC.