Microsoft will officially retire Internet Explorer 6 in July of 2010. The browser was originally released in late 2001. 9 years is not a bad run for a piece of software. In the last year, there has been a growing movement to stop supporting IE6 for websites and web applications. There's a good reason for [...]
With AceProject, we support 5 browsers: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome. At Websystems, most of us use FireFox or Internet Explorer. Hence, we tend to want to test AceProject with our preferred browser, in our preferred language. But we still support all the other ones To make sure all browsers and languages [...]
I keep finding websites that NEED Internet Explorer to work correctly. On the last website I visited, a government directory, the search function would only work with Internet Explorer. This is inexcusable. While Michel, our graphic designer, keeps telling me how hard it is to make AceProject look the same across five browsers (Internet Explorer, [...]
It seems to me it’s only a few years ago that Internet Explorer took 80%+ of the browser share from my website visitors. How things have changed. Internet Explorer is now used by only 49% of AceProject’s visitors, while FireFox is preferred by 40% of them. FireFox and Internet Explorer are now nose-to-nose.
