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VanguardLH said:
nasser jamal wrote:
So why did you prefix the body of your post with the ">"
quoting character? Is this your question, or did you copy
and paste someone else's question?
A better question would be:
IE8 or IE6: Which is supported by Microsoft and which is
getting dropped for support at web sites?
To date I haven't seen ANY websites deny IE6. Not only would it be silly to
do, since the installed base is large, but it would be hard to write
anything for a web site that would crash or otherwise mess up IE6 to the
point of uselessness. You seem to think there are no IE4, win9x or DOS
applications in existance anymore, but that's wrong. There are a LOT of
them, and they are ALL unsupported! What about Netscape? Should everyone
stop using it simply because it's not supported nor even available anymore
from Netscape? No, there's still a pretty good installed base out there
using it. Then, there is a plethora of other apps out there like Office XP
(2002), VB6 classic, and on and on, that are no longer supported but are
still in heavy use and producing good income for their license holders. A
complete list of such things would be incredibly long. I suppose XP should
be abandoned, especially if it's only at SP2 also, right? But that's silly:
If it does everything one needs reliably and with stability, or even win98,
why change? Then there are a gazillion third party and freeware and/or Open
Source applicaitons out there without official support; I suppose they need
to be abandoned too? Nonsense.
Tis a no-brainer to answer even by yourself.
Tis a no-brainer to one with no-brain, I'd agree to that.
Have you tested IE8 in its no add-ons mode to make sure
that you didn't leave your host polluted with old and
incompatible add-ons for IE? Maybe you need a newer
version of any security software you installed (anti-virus,
firewall, HIPS, etc) that interrogate and can corrupt your
web traffic.
lol, "corrupt" web traffic?
I haven't come across or even heard about any plans to drop IE6 from any
websites; just because an application isn't "supported" anymore only means
there won't be any further updates planned for it or fixes from Microsoft.
Big deal. "Planned" being the major word there; just like in the past, if
any serious hole is discovered, it'll get fixed. IE6 is stable and reliable
too, so it's not a big deal that way. One is wise to go to IE8 for the extra
security and tabbing features, etc., but those still on IE6 have very little
to worry about.
HTH,
Twayne`