I am just done watching episode 94 of Ping on channel 9 and heard that Microsoft is doing all it can to make IE6 lose its market share (loved the catchphrase – “friends don't let friends use IE6”), Its a fairly belated attempt seeing as companies like Google have already joined the armada of companies that do not support IE6. To web developers, this is definitely a great thing and means that we will decreasingly stop creating cascading style sheets that is specifically meant to run on IE6 and below and endless hours of javascript debugging.This means no more png alpha transparency fixes, no more....
.box {
background: #00f; /* all browsers including Mac IE */
*background: #f00; /* IE 7 and below */
_background/**/: #0f0; /* IE 5.0 */
_background:/**/ #f62; /* IE 5.5 only */
_background/**/:/**/ #f61; /* IE 6 only */
padding: 7px;
color: #fff;
}
nonsense in CSS!! Welcome to the beginning of a standardized Internet!! –DO I HAVE A WITNESS?
On the flipside (for Microsoft), using the latest stats, it seems the loss of IE6 market share does not translate to the gain in market share of IE7+ browsers as Google Chrome appears to be growing almost at the rate IE is losing ground. (At this point I drop my well thought of pun of the week and the only reason I wrote this post!!)
On the flipside (for Microsoft), using the latest stats, it seems the loss of IE6 market share does not translate to the gain in market share of IE7+ browsers as Google Chrome appears to be growing almost at the rate IE is losing ground. (At this point I drop my well thought of pun of the week and the only reason I wrote this post!!)
Microsoft – be careful what you wish for because it may just CHROME true.
P.S there is a website out there that does real time countdown of IE6 Market share its called IE6Countdown that complements a bunch of websites that want IE6 dead they are I Dropped IE6 , IE6 Update and IE6 No more
