Comments on: IE6 falls; XHTML2 cancelled.

By: XHTML: Tod eines Schaustellers - css-petals.net - beautify the web

XHTML: Tod eines Schaustellers - css-petals.net - beautify the web — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:48 +0000

[...] “Exciting times, people!” wird in der Developer-Community die aktuelle Entwicklung der Webstandards und die Abkehr [...]

By: xun

xun — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:48:49 +0000

ie6 is a deep pain in the ass.
should i drop ie6 compatibility?

T_T

By: Clarifications on XHTML & HTML5 | Wisdump

Clarifications on XHTML & HTML5 | Wisdump — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:53:17 +0000

[...] we’re now in this transitional stage of shedding off old browsers and web technologies that have been stumbling blocks to creating innovative new [...]

By: Goodbye IE 6, 6 Reasons It Must Die | Noktah Hitam

Goodbye IE 6, 6 Reasons It Must Die | Noktah Hitam — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:39:54 +0000

[...] The Internet Explore marketing team are aggressively pushing IE 8 into the browser war. They know themselves, IE 6 is no longer fit for modern web. Goodbye IE 6. [...]

By: Cristiano Rastelli

Cristiano Rastelli — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:10:57 +0000

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2009/June/browser.php

As far as I can see, IE8 is still far from IE6.

By: Josh Hudnall

Josh Hudnall — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:40:56 +0000

I agree with lktree, nothing about that graph indicated the fall of IE6 (thought I’ll admit I might have shouting of it’s demise from the rooftops for more than a second out of shear hope).

I think by this time next year IE6 will be below 5% which is what I’ve decided my threshold will be. Here’s hoping.

I am excited for the decision to discontinue xhtml, great though it may have been. I agree, standards are what we need.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:50:13 +0000

I run a website for the US government. We get about 12k visits a week. Last week, we had 4 times as many IE6 users as IE8. So from my perspective, we have a long, long way to go.

By: Ivan Zhekov

Ivan Zhekov — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:49:00 +0000

Tough I agree there should be some extensions to CSS, the more I use authoring tools, the less extensions I need.

For instance if the nesting of rules could be achieved with an authoring tool, why would we need it in CSS?

The same goes for variables and if statements.

More over — why would you need an if statement for functionality? It is either supported or not — you write the rules and they degrade when they are not supported. Simple as that ;)

I would appreciate some referencing like position “relative-to” or something like that, which is now possible only with JS.

And before LESS there was SASS, and frankly, it’s much much better, not to mention COMPASS Style (based on SASS) makes a statement what a CSS framework should be about. It has it all — variables, mixins, includes, trimming empty selectors, operations, loops, if’s.

– Ivan

By: CSS Brigit | IE6 falls; XHTML2 cancelled.

CSS Brigit | IE6 falls; XHTML2 cancelled. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:50:37 +0000

IE6 falls; XHTML2 cancelled….

In yet another interesting turn of events, two of the biggest issues when it comes to web design and development make way for the newer, better versions of themselves….

By: lktree

lktree — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:37:36 +0000

IE8 has overtaken IE6, but IE8 adopters are coming from IE7, not IE6. The actual decline of IE6 continues at the same slow steady pace.