I have been working on a web application and was required to make the work with IE6. We were doing nothing fancy, but the application had numerous issues rendering in IE6. First, we implemented the presentation using JSF and Facelets. All of our content was in XHTML documents, which IE6 apparently has no idea how to deal with! After doing some research, we found a simple solution to the problem; simply by removing the XML prologue, IE6 could now display the pages. We also had problems with some of the CommandLinks and CommandButtons not posting back to the server, by playing with different tag combinations, we finally got it working all of the browsers. What a pain in the behind!
I just cannot image how anyone could actually still be using IE6… Unfortunately, It is still the corporate standard where I work too. Somehow, I have no idea how, my Internet Explorer magically upgraded itself to IE7 a couple of years ago, and then again to IE8. It is amazing how that happened, and even more amazingly, everything still works fine! How do people surf without tabs? That is the question I really want answered! I really don’t use IE anyway, as the rich supply of plug-ins makes Firefox the best option out there, in my humble opinion.
Anyway, one of my friends forwarded me a couple of posts that I just had to share, the best one being “IE6 must die“! You just really have to love what gets people fired up… People are even spending their time building Javascript libraries and WordPress plug-ins, to encourage people to upgrade. I found some of these URLs rather funny…
- http://isie6dead.com/
- http://idroppedie6.com/
- http://www.ie6nomore.com/
- http://ie6update.com/
The most interesting post was about “IE6 Offenders“. I checked out the site, ieoffenders.com, which highlighted organizations that were still using IE6. It reported the number of users and the reason why they had not upgraded. In searching for the site tonight, the guy actually took his site down! I guess the guy must have caught some flack? I actually thought it was quite interesting!
I also like some of the banners, example below, that people are adding to their sites… I found this post tonight, The browser that will not die. It says that Microsoft will support IE6 until at least, 2014! That is amazingly sad!
