Words Of Wisdom said:
rocketpig said:
There are still weaknesses with HTML5 but you have to admit that some of the stuff you can do with it is pretty freakin' cool.
Browser makers need to really get on board with this new stuff. I'm hoping that auto-updates in modern browsers will allow legacy stuff to phase out faster (it would be a HUGE boon to web devs) but it doesn't really seem to work that way, especially for people using IE. Can you believe that almost 10% of the web population still uses IE6? Jesus, that was the shittiest browser ever created. I want to eSlap every damned person who hasn't at least updated to 7 (because asking them all to use their brain and switch to FF is asking too much). |
Yeah, it is kind of cool.
Here's where I'll go against the norm: IE6 was freaking awesome as a browser... in the day. The whole chain of IE4, IE5, and IE6 being awesome (along with bundling) were what established Internet Explorer as the browser to beat. It was the best browser on the market. Microsoft was coming out swinging with redesigns and new features while Netscape Navigator fell further and further behind (the redesign killed it).
Sadly, Internet Explorer 6 is old and has lived on for too long. People do need to upgrade, but it's sad that a great browser will leave such an awful memory on so many people.
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The reason I will never accept IE6 as being a decent browser was how MS steadfastly refused to conform to any kind of web standards with the browser. It launched during the heyday of Microsoft's "we're gonna do everything OUR way" mentality and was a development nightmare. You had to code a site for browsers... and then re-code a lot of it for IE6.
And then MS ran it out on the market for WAY too long and it became entrenched, much to the chagrin of the development community.
