Herbert Graf wrote:
> IE6 has ALOT of rendering bugs for even the simplest features of HTML.
>
> Sites that "look right" on IE6 either got lucky, or had a branch of
> development specifically targeting IE6. It was common to have to
> basically write a web site twice, once for IE6 and again for all the
> other browsers that were FAR more standards compliant. IE6 cost
> companies alot of money in duplication of design efforts.

I can confirm this. Version 2.0 of ScanTool.net website was designed in=20
2004-2005, when the IE6 market share was huge. Our web developer cursed it=
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every time he had to work around the rendering bugs. It's not just the time=
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it takes to add the workarounds, but also the additional burden of=20
maintaining the code.

Current version of the site also has IE6 specific code, luckily most of the=
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code was off-the-shelf. With the population of IE6 users steadily=20
approaching 0%, there isn't much incentive to bend over backwards to suppor=
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them.


> Yes, you can write a web page using the most simple form of HTML and it
> will (probably) render properly in IE6 (come to think of it, even adding
> simple images can have issues with IE6, so might not be able to have
> those either), but trust me, you won't like the look of it very much.

Embed Inc is a good example of what Olin's ideal site would look like:

http://www.embedinc.com/

By the way, notice the scrolling testimony at the top of the page. The=20
following comments are utterly amusing, when considered in this context:

> Why do I need these "slides" in the first place?  Moving stuff on a web=20
> page
> is annoying as it is distracting when trying to read something else.

....and...

>> How do you know that 99% of customers are
>> pissed off and you're reading reviews from the last 1%?
>>
>> How do you know you aren't reading 99% of the satisfied customers
>> reviews, and only 1% are pissed off?
>
> Exactly, you don't.  In other words, there is no information in a
> manufacturer posting a good review on their web site.
>
>> There are people who might need just a little bit more assurance
>> about a product to tip the scale in favor of them
>> buying that product, and the reviews contain that extra bit of
>> assurance.
>
> Then they're idiots if a likely biased, selected, or even fraudulent=20
> review
> sways their opinion.

:-))))

Vitaliy=20

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