Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is the bane of our existence. There I said it.
As web standards have changed, browsers gotten better and people’s interactions with the internet become something else entirely; 20% of Internet users insist in keeping an 8 year old browser. Do you remember what websites were like 8 years ago? Here’s Microsoft’s own from the Wayback Machine’s archive. No video, no Javascript, no CSS, basically nothing of what makes a modern site.
Our company hosts one of my favorite web comics CommissionedComic.com. It’s very nerdy fare full of inside geek jokes and D&D themes. It’s also very funny and I read it daily. I got a an IM from Obsidian, the comic’s artist early today asking me to look at his RSS code because some of his readers were having trouble with the feed. I subscribed to it and everything worked fine, then took a look at the generating PHP and it seemed to be working perfectly as well.
We’ve decided to keep the “problem” whichever it might be, unsolved for now and get some more feedback from users.
My best guess is that Continue reading »
