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The fast-moving webThe fast-moving webPosted May 22, 2012 19:22 UTC (Tue) by robbe (guest, #16131)Parent article: Stable distributions and unstable software
I may be seriously out of it, but is the web really evolving that fast? To me it seems more like release-race fanned by Chrome and Firefox. And the press releases are mostly about enhanced speed.
Real web sites care about stone age browsers like IE6 on XP. Or we would use SNI everywhere, and youtube would get off flash today.
I also see a lot of intranet web applications working solely with *old* browser versions. My favourite is one supporting Firefox 4 and 5 on Linux.
Funny that Jake talks about the Android model, where the browser is actually part of the stable base -- unlike desktop distributions, where it presumably will belong to the unstable/rolling department.
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The fast-moving web Posted May 22, 2012 20:22 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
> Real web sites care about stone age browsers like IE6 on XP
I don't think thats true anymore. Many high-profile sites have dropped support for IE6, I think IE6 support is becoming rare for Internet accessible applications, there are still internal line of business applications from the IE6-only era in some organizations though.
Designers are pretty jazzed about the quick release cycle and auto-upgrades because the browsers are converging on standards more then they are diverging and you can more rely on the lowest-common-denominator user having a fairly recent and robust set of working standard features. Also the quick release cycle drives smaller, more incremental changes rather than breakage due to large feature changes between releases.
The fast-moving web Posted May 23, 2012 12:10 UTC (Wed) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link]
Me neither. But we -do- still care about IE7, even though we wish we wouldn't have to.
We provide the technical part of several large websites, many of which are used by government-organizations which can be *very* slow in upgrading.
It'd be jolly nice if we could drop support for browsers which are no longer supported by the vendor, though.
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