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IE6: The zombie browser

Brian Dillard, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 @ 5:45 am

Paul Graham's much-dissected essay Microsoft is Dead offers some witty and perceptive analysis, but it sidesteps the fact that Microsoft's rotten corpse will take decades to decompose. In the meantime, we still live in a world where most people trawl the Internet with a Microsoft browser. I've already linked to Kevin Hale's perceptive essay On the Tenacity of Internet Explorer 6, and I've already covered Eric Meyer's useful techniques for taking advantage of IE7's power while continuing to support IE6. But I've got a few more links to add to Dietrich's and my back-and-forth about the state of JavaScript tooling. I regularly stop by the IEBlog the same way I keep tabs on the neighbors I don't really like but have to live near. They recently added a more in-depth post about Ajax View, a pretty cool profiler that they'd previously covered along with other IE development tools earlier this summer. In a previous post, I surmised that most front-end developers code for Firefox first, then put off their Safari/Explorer testing till the end. Maybe if IE tooling continues to mature, we'll see less of that.

Topics: Browsers, Firefox, IE, IE7, Safari, Tools

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FYI: the IEBlog link is using a relative path and broken.

IE is such a pain, especially, 6. Great collection of articles.

Comment by matt snider, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
Microsloth have it in their power to replace or fix IE6. The rotting corpse is a joke.

I’ve considered starting a campaign website called fixie6.com

Anybody interested?

Comment by pd, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 @ 6:32 pm

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