Comments on: The IE7 auto-rollout: fact and fiction

By: MadeByChad

MadeByChad — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:15:20 +0000

I like that stand-point… I joke with someone I develop for about this… “Oh, it looks funny in IE (or just plain doesn’t work as in some random swfobject error where the version detection was broken and hence the load function never wrote the flash object to the div), don’t use IE then people”.

Unfortunately, in looking at the stats for the sites I mantain (http://jorgecruise.com and his other sites), I see that 70% of visitors use some version of IE. That’s down from 90% just a year ago, even with the older demographic of people who are interested in these sites, that’s pretty good. LET THE SWITCH OVER TO NON-IE BROWSERS REIGN ON!!!

By: DigitalSkyline

DigitalSkyline — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:04:10 +0000

If people still use IE6, they must not want to use my website ;)

By: urandom

urandom — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:45:57 +0000

make no mistake
at least half of my (and anyone else’s) clients will cling to ie6 like it’s some sort of precious metal, just to piss us off.

By: Grimsk

Grimsk — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:47:33 +0000

what a waste of time an energie .. to keep web page working for that old shit( ie6 )

so frustrating to do and redo same code to fix it IE6….

its a total failure by microsoft

By: MadeByChad

MadeByChad — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:44:24 +0000

All I know is that myself (a developer) and my dad (a typical user) have both come to hate IE, not because of anything other than it makes both of our lives a headache. This kind of a discussion shouldn’t even be necessary, it’s as though MS is determining how we browse sites and how we develop, they shouldn’t control a standard… because they have no standard from release to release, the only standard is that things that once worked will break and require companies to spend $ to rework code to work in the newest version of IE. I work contract, so it means more work and $ in my pocket, but I feel sorry for my customers and their sites requiring so much unnecessary man hours to baby sit the IE browser and make sure bug workarounds that we created are not broken in the newest release, when they fix their bugs.

Ay—Ay-Aye

By: Steve Roussey

Steve Roussey — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:37:11 +0000

I think WGA was removed so those that stole Windows can get IE7 now, Liquidrums.

By: Joeri

Joeri — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:59:24 +0000

IE8 is a non-breaking release for existing web pages, as far as I understand, so I’d prefer them to aggressively push out IE7 so we have some semblance of usability from an app developer’s point of view.

By: chickerino

chickerino — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:31:27 +0000

please please please can they wait until IE8 before they start doing this. Basically we’re gonna have to continue supporting IE6 for a while (bluerrgh) so they might as well take out 2 (lame) birds with 1 stone when IE8 comes out.

By: Liquidrums

Liquidrums — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:01:39 +0000

When will the WGA antipiracy check get removed for the rest of Windows users that desperately need IE7?