On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> Peter Loron wrote:
> > IE6 is, as others have mentioned, well past its sell-by date. It has
> > numerous security issues, and is by far the least standards compliant
> > browser still in significant use. Stupefying amounts of time are
> > spent working around the broken standards support in
> >
> > Even if you don't care about the new features, updating to a more
> > current version will help protect you from vulnerabilities that can
> > be exploited to attack your computer.
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> Last time I looked at the next version of IE, it had some things I didn't
> like.  Can the various toolbars and stuff be stripped down like IE6 in th=
e
> attached picture?  I never use those silly clickety-click tool bar icons =
and
> don't want them to waste pixels.  If I remember right, IE7 always had
> another bar there you couldn't get rid of.
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> Is there a simple reliable key sequence to put the cursor where you can t=
ype
> another URL?  In IE6 CTRL-TAB does this, but it didn't always in IE7 if I
> remember right.
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> It's these kind of usability issues that keep me from upgrading.
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> > Please update your browser.
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> This is not your call nor your business.
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It's not my business either but I hope you'll take this as the friendly=20
advice it's meant to be - you NEED to upgrade :-)

Some time ago I picked up a book on XHTML and CSS and had a skim. I was=20
more interested in getting an overview on CSS than anything else. It was a=
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good book (O'Reilly - need I say more). I was shocked by the sheer volume=20
of problems this book highlighted with IE. It discussed hacks to work=20
around many of the problems and some things you just had to steer clear of=
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because you just couldn't use them to the same effect in IE and other=20
browsers. Yes it discussed problems with other browsers as well but that's=
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really not the issue.

BTW something I found really laughable was the way a version of IE for=20
windows behaved differently to the same version of IE for Macs!

Now that M$ has officially turned it's back on IE6 you are going to get=20
more and more web sites that host IE6 "hostile" pages.

Surely high on your list of "usability issues" should be whether pages=20
apear as intended - are they missing important content, are navigation=20
links present etc.

Friendly Regards
Sergio Masci
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