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IE6 It is time to let go!

Sunday, 27 March 2011
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Our team has debated this since 2 years now. When all templates clubs simply decided to stop supporting IE6 we continued our course and implemented all possible patches you might need for it. And there is plenty of them. But since recent Microsoft website ie6countdown.com came out where they bash their own product and urge everyone to update, it is time for us to simply play along. We gave our best shoot and it is time to move on.

 

 

It is time for us to advise our customers to stop supporting one of the worst browsers ever made. It is time for all our developer club members to advise their customers to click on a upgrade button.

All our templates have the IE6 upgrade notice especially YJSimpleGrid based ones. So please turn it on in your template settings  and advise your visitors to upgrade. Understand that we will not cut all existing patches for IE6, but rather just not add new ones. All our templates have ifie6 options and ifie6 css files. You are more than welcome to still use them.

 

But from today's date we will not have any special hacks for IE6 and we will not add any new ones for all our future products.

 

We all went crazy when Joomla was going from 1.0 to 1.5 to 1.6. Everyone was upgrading without thinking twice about it. So why not push the IE6 upgrade? We all know what type of product it is , and we all know that there is so many better options like Firefox , Safari, Opera, Chrome.  You still want to stick with IE , fine, get  IE8 or IE9. It is compliant and has none of the issues like IE6.  

 

    

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#5 Alexandre 2011-04-01 17:03
Yeap... we have a web monitor that gives us the most used browsers, and here in our country, IE6 represents 10% of our visitors browsers, while IE8 is the top most used. We agree that users should move to newer versions and even to try other vendors/brands, but one thing is our will and other is the end user's. But, again, we agree: if visitors want or need to use older versions, for whatever reason, they will have to deal with its' shortfalls.
The machine is running and thoses who want to keep up, have to get what is necessary.

Cheers.
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#4 Margo 2011-03-28 13:14
Pfff. IE6. What was that again ? lol :)
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#3 Jason 2011-03-28 13:10
You should have done this earlier. I am developer myself and stopped supporting IE6 2 years ago. That is only way we can educate our visitors.
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#2 neo 2011-03-28 13:07
Quoting marijnversteeg:
Very logical that you take this step, but because youjoomla was supporting IE6 I bought templates! Big companies around the world are using programs/software that are specialy build for IE6. We are still working with IE6, so all the website I make must be IE6 proof.

Regards,

Marijn



This is why we will leave all built in ie6 files , nothing will be removed. It might take you extra hour or 2 to implement what you need . You can add own hacks in. And it is not that templates will not be functional at all. There will be small padding differences , margins ect. But again , if we can advise our customers to upgrade so should you.
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#1 marijnversteeg 2011-03-28 13:04
Very logical that you take this step, but because youjoomla was supporting IE6 I bought templates! Big companies around the world are using programs/software that are specialy build for IE6. We are still working with IE6, so all the website I make must be IE6 proof.

Regards,

Marijn
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