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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Its time for a good bitch at Microsoft and where better to begin nothing other than Internet Explorer 8. It’s the long awaited savior of the Internet Explorer franchise with more secure this and better compliance that but its still behind the rest of the pack. It’s just come out of beta and the first public version of IE 8 looks like IE 7 and isn’t much different really.
It’s boasted to have new and improved security and online personal security functionality (phishing and dangerous site notifications). It also now has, to be blunt, the PornMode called ‘InPrivate’ which will not remember anything you have visited for a session. Now that’s all well and good but compared to other browsers is catching up on last years features and is still the same cruddy IE.
Lets focus on what enrages me and no doubt the web designer community too. This single sentence from the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) describes why I hate IE with a passion…
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Tags: ie6, Internet Explorer, Microsoft
July 12, 2009 1:09 am