Posts Tagged ‘internet explorer’

Bring down IE6: a .net magazine campaign

Friday, March 13th, 2009

IE6 really shouldnt be around. Its getting old and just isnt standards complient!! We also now pretty much have IE8. The problem is that IE7/8 is not supported on Windows 2000 so that means most users of IE6 are business users.

The problem with IE6 still hanging around is that clients pressure web designers/developers to get sites working in IE6 and having to use various hacks and tweaks. It wastes time and money!! Microsoft need to sort it and get IE7 working on Windows 2000 – and get IE6 to automatically update to IE7 (or 8) or even better suggest Firefox!!

Clients pressure designers to ‘force’ sites to work in IE6, and designers, not wanting to lose business, comply, using hacks and workarounds. This wastes time and money. Microsoft needs to fix this, designers need to unite, and we all need to move on.

Heres a quote from Jeff Zeldman, standards guru:

“IE6 is the new Netscape 4. The hacks needed to support IE6 are increasingly viewed as excess freight. Like Netscape 4 in 2000, IE6 is perceived to be holding back the web.”

Bring down IE6!!

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Firefox 3 is a record breaker!

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Firefox 3Firefox 3 was recently released on the 17th June. Mozilla decided to name to the “Download day” and try to break the download record – the number of downloads in one 24 hour period.

Today the figures were released and it broke the record with 8,002,530 downloads in the 24 hours between 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008. As I write this there has been more than 29m

Its a nice improvement over Firefox 2 – which was already good – and things seem a lot faster. For example using Gmail is tons faster!! With Firefox 2 it used to crash on me, now its almost instant when opening messages and going to different folders. Also previous versions of Firefox have used tons of memory the longer you use it with the various number of tabs etc. This seems a lot better.

Download it now!!

On the subject of Firefox and browser news, apparently 637 million users of the Internet are at risk because they are using outdated versions of their browser. Whether you use Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera you should keep it updated! Using data collected from Google Web searches and security firm Secunia, they found that about 40% of users were using insecure versions of web browsers. Not suprisingly users of Internet Explorer being the least complient.

“The data was collected in mid-June 2008. The users were scattered among 78 percent Internet Explorer users, 16 percent Firefox, 3 percent Safari, and 0.8 percent for Opera. Of these, 52 percent were running the latest version of Internet Explorer, 92 percent for Firefox, 70 percent for Apple, and 90 percent for Opera.”

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