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The fast-moving webThe fast-moving webPosted May 22, 2012 20:22 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: The fast-moving web by robbe Parent article: Stable distributions and unstable software
> 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.
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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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