The Bad
The slow death of IE6
With its 8th birthday coming up on the 27th of August its time to reflect on a very painful and long lived life of Internet Explorer 6.
Released on the 27th of August in 2001, IE 6 was the new browser to be included with Windows XP. IE 6 was an improvement to its IE 5 sibling and at its time, was ok for standards and compliance with CSS and HTML. In the next few years there was plans for the new HTML 5 and CSS 3 spec and other browsers, such as Firefox and Safari, started to include these new specs. IE 6 over time has become more and more behind the times and now is one of our biggest issues in the web design industry.
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Tags: ie6, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
July 12, 2009 1:09 am