Comments on: The Danger of Ignoring Web Standards (2) – Internet Explorer 6 Must Die! http://www.zeta.net/web-development/ie6-must-die.html Zeta Digital Press and Media Centre Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:10:49 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Brad http://www.zeta.net/web-development/ie6-must-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-25785 Brad Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:55:21 +0000 http://www.zeta.net/blog/?p=1188#comment-25785 Windows 9x, NT and 2K have less than 1% of market share combined while IE6 has 18.41%. More people browse the web on their iPhones & iPods than on Windows 2000 and 9X. What we are dealing with here is a lack of education. Google should be applauded for forcing users to educate themselves and then make the logical choice: upgrade. It takes industry titans to be able to be able to make such bold steps and if Google gains some commercial advantage as a result they deserve it. Google has driven innovation on the web while Microsoft has done its best to box people in a stifle competition. Windows 9x, NT and 2K have less than 1% of market share combined while IE6 has 18.41%. More people browse the web on their iPhones & iPods than on Windows 2000 and 9X.

What we are dealing with here is a lack of education.
Google should be applauded for forcing users to educate themselves and then make the logical choice: upgrade.

It takes industry titans to be able to be able to make such bold steps and if Google gains some commercial advantage as a result they deserve it. Google has driven innovation on the web while Microsoft has done its best to box people in a stifle competition.

]]> By: Ed http://www.zeta.net/web-development/ie6-must-die.html/comment-page-1#comment-18411 Ed Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:53:22 +0000 http://www.zeta.net/blog/?p=1188#comment-18411 This is just Google playing politics. It's nothing more than Google indulging their dislike of Microsoft, by going in for the good old sport of Microsoft-bashing: this time in the hope of gaining a commercial advantage, by enhancing the user-base for their own web browser, Chrome, at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Google has a financial interest in rubbishing IE6, so this is not an unbiased assessment of that browser, merely a blatent piece of opportunism following Google's well-publicised alleged problems with IE6 over the last few days. The reality is that Google are only planning to upgrade some unimportant aspects of their website. The search engine, the important bit, will continue to function normally in IE 5 and IE 6. Many IE6 users are running some version of Windows 9x, on an older computer, one that isn't capable of running IE7. So what Google is really saying is: we demand that you buy a new computer, and a new Operating System, and all-new Windows NT software. Well, no one is going to do that! Not because one search engine makes a trivial change to its website. Although they might not think so, even if Google disappears tomorrow there are plenty of other search engines. This is just Google playing politics. It’s nothing more than Google indulging their dislike of Microsoft, by going in for the good old sport of Microsoft-bashing: this time in the hope of gaining a commercial advantage, by enhancing the user-base for their own web browser, Chrome, at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Google has a financial interest in rubbishing IE6, so this is not an unbiased assessment of that browser, merely a blatent piece of opportunism following Google’s well-publicised alleged problems with IE6 over the last few days.

The reality is that Google are only planning to upgrade some unimportant aspects of their website. The search engine, the important bit, will continue to function normally in IE 5 and IE 6.

Many IE6 users are running some version of Windows 9x, on an older computer, one that isn’t capable of running IE7. So what Google is really saying is: we demand that you buy a new computer, and a new Operating System, and all-new Windows NT software.

Well, no one is going to do that! Not because one search engine makes a trivial change to its website. Although they might not think so, even if Google disappears tomorrow there are plenty of other search engines.

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