Ranting about MicroSuck IE 6 side by side with IE 7
I just spent the better part of 3 hours cleaning the XP which I test sites on. My daughter installed many browser doo dads and applications. It takes a long time to uninstall stuff on a WinTel PC (piece of crap for sure). I'm on a Mac. God bless Macintosh! Drag and drop, such a V8 moment!
A long time ago I installed multiple IEs and the Standalone IE 7 (along with every other browser). The multiple IEs stopped working. IE 8 beta (crap) caused all IEs, even the stand alones, to be really buggy. Forms not working and generally lousy. Trendsoft is not supporting Multiple IEs and no matter how many times I cleaned and restarted, nothing worked. The error report would happen with every site.
The solution: I downloaded www.epic-labs.com/IE6Eolas.zip and now IE 7 and IE 6 are working. And all my sites look and work fine, btw.
But when, oh when, will we stop supporting IE 6.0? Come on folks, it came out in August 2001! Rather ancient, wouldn't you say? I'm so happy that IE in all versions has lost a lot of market share to FireFox! Yeah!
Now I stopped testing sites on any IE older than 6.0. I used to test on 5.5 and 5.1 — waste of time. If you have visitors, or potential customers, who haven't upgraded in 10 years &mdash a decade, seriously, do you want their business? I didn't think so.
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