Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:46:19 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: IE 6 "funeral"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 3/6/2010 12:38 PM >>>
>"Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?hpt=T2
>> From the text:
>> "But MG Siegler of TechCrunch, the technology news site, believes =
>> Thursday's service won't be the last that Web users hear of Internet =
=
>> Explorer 6. As many as hundreds of thousands of sites out there still =
=
>> support IE6 and in some cases were built specifically for it, he said."
>
>Sigh.  "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser
>X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days,
>before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document
>written on another computer, another word processor, or another
>network."  -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web.

I laugh at such web designers.

A World Fantasy Con - which shall remained unnamed - website was designed =
around whatever version of IE was around, probably 6.  The "designer" was =
almost livid over the idea that he/she had to reddesign the site to be =
useable by such "anti-Microsoft" products as FireFox and whatever else.

mjw
"Oh I used to be disgusted
and now I try to be amused. " - Declan MacManus