IE6 - time to move on
Posted by Gavin Pay on August 24, 2009 in Industry comments, Web technologies with 0 CommentsIE6 was first released in 2001, 8 years down the track and IE6 is most definitely outdated technology. In a world of progressive leaps and bounds, why are people still hanging on to a browser that is so far behind the times?
Imagine if you will, trying to do any work on a computer from 2001, the best ones had 256Mb RAM, 20Gb hard drive space and a blistering 600Mhz processor. And forget about trying to run any of the programs you use everyday, the computer would grind to a halt. The internet is the same, much of the latest web technologies (those that make the internet the content rich environment that it is) won’t run on IE6.
The biggest and most important of these are CSS v2 and security in general. CSS v2 is what web designers use to make their web pages, the works of art that some of them are, and then have to write hacks and work-arounds to display these pages in IE6. Then there is security, just like not updating your virus software can get you riddled with spyware, not updating your browser can be a gateway to attacks.
Why not update your browser? It’s free and very easy to do. There are now browsers which can rival IE. Firefox and Opera are two that run on even older computers and work much better than IE6.
IE6 was fine enough for use in 2001, but for web applications to evolve and grow into tools that can run just as seamlessly as desktop applications, the browser that requires designers and programmers to come up with the most hacks, time, and energy to make things work must be set aside.
Gavin Pay has been developing Internet Applications for nearly 10 years and has loved every minute of it. He specialises in Microsoft technologies such as ASP.Net and SQL.Find out more at Gavin's Profile. Don't forget to subscribe if you'd like to hear more!
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