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Words Of Wisdom on 09 January 2010
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jefforange89 said:
Xoj said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Xoj said:
well any fourth year student in systems and software engineer it's given a small introduction to openGL that's why it surprise me DirectX was more popular.
but this confirms many things our professor said about opengl, and it's sad because opengl its suppport in more platforms.

but again ti's microsoft, from IE6 fiasco, this kind of FUD what microsoft do best

Uh what IE6 fiasco?  Go ahead and explain that one.

@article : The author continually asks how to target XP users when it's really just a matter of using DX9.  Some people will complain that using an older version of DX is bad because you're losing features, but you have to consider the hardware that WinXP users are working with and realize that lot of those powerful features aren't going to be viable anyway.  Combine that with the fabulous game compatibility of Win7, there's very little reason for anyone with recent hardware to be using XP.

http://mashable.com/2009/07/16/ie6-must-die/

Agreed, Internet Exploder is awful.

Anyone who's ever made a webpage ever will tell you that IE is the devil.  It takes fucking witchcraft to get JavaScript to run properly in IE.

IE8, however, is a step in the right direction.

Did either of you actually read the article to understand what it was saying?  Or did you just see "blah blah blah IE6 must die blah blah blah?"

From the article you quoted:

Just six years ago, the web was dominated by one browser: Internet Explorer, specifically Internet Explorer 6.

Do you know why that was?  I'll tell you why--it was the best browser of the time.  Since IE4, Internet Explorer started kicking ass.  Internet Explorer rendered faster, had more features, and was better than its competition in almost every way (and the reviews showed).  Between IE4 through IE6, it pulled ahead further with every incarnation.  Netscape fell so far behind that they tried to rewrite it and it ended up turning into a steaming pile of garbage while IE just kept getting better and better.

IE6 is quite possibly the most dominant and successful browser ever made.

It's annoying to see people running around talking about how awful Internet Explorer 6 is when they really have no idea what they're talking about.  It's not bad, it's just old and past its time.

As a side note, the tansparent png issue the article author mentions is just an include and a single line of javascript away from disappearing.