http://www.spokeagency.com/daily Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:31:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.spokeagency.com/daily/2010/03/04/r-i-p-ie6/ http://www.spokeagency.com/daily/2010/03/04/r-i-p-ie6/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:23:44 +0000 admin http://www.spokeagency.com/daily/?p=674 So, I walked into the office today and to my most pleasurable surprise, I found an invitation sitting in my inbox to the official funeral of Internet Explorer Six, better known to us Interactive folk as IE6. Apparently, this long-time Internet resident had passed away on the morning of March 1, 2010 due to workplace injuries sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. The official invitation can be viewed here: http://ie6funeral.com/ I will most definitely be celebrating this momentous departure of a near and not so dear friend. Over the 8 long years that this browser has hung like a black ominous cloud over my head, there has never been a day that I have dreamt more about than this one. A tad bit exaggerated and slightly morbid, but ask any designer/developer/project manager that has ever battled with cross-browser testing and they will most definitely echo my sentiment. At many points in my career, my colleagues and I have contemplated how we could avoid the headaches and long nights spent maintaining the integrity of our beautiful online designs when viewed with IE6. It was like being in a virtual fun house, but the reflections were never funny. IE6 was a true rebel, rendering things to it’s own liking, never conforming to the rules and regulations of typical web standards. All jokes aside, you would be surprised at how many high-profile brands and Fortune 500 companies still use IE6 as their main Internet browser. Therefore, any attempt to avoid doing business for companies that still worked on this ancient browser could have been the death of all our careers. It wasn’t a chance we were willing to take. And now we won’t have to make that compromise. May you rest in peace IE6, alongside our other dearly departed friends, MS-DOS, floppy drive, dot matrix and all the other obsolete, BSOD-inducing technologies of the world. Good-bye and good riddance. ]]> http://www.spokeagency.com/daily/2010/03/04/r-i-p-ie6/feed/ 0