Main Area and Open Discussion > Living Room

Go dark for IE - October 26, 2012

<< < (6/7) > >>

f0dder:
People who are still on XP could slap on Chrome or FireFox?

People still using IE6 are probably
a) ignorant that there's better browsers around
or
b) working for some fat, lethargic corporation that could use a little lesson :)

(OK, both the fox and chrome are fatter and slower than IE6, but if you're on a system that's so hardware-limited that it can't drive one of those browsers, it probably wouldn't be very fun to visit websites that are advanced enough to actually require a newer browser...)

rgdot:
People who are still on XP could slap on Chrome or FireFox?

People still using IE6 are probably
a) ignorant that there's better browsers around
or
b) working for some fat, lethargic corporation that could use a little lesson :)

(OK, both the fox and chrome are fatter and slower than IE6, but if you're on a system that's so hardware-limited that it can't drive one of those browsers, it probably wouldn't be very fun to visit websites that are advanced enough to actually require a newer browser...)
-f0dder (August 19, 2012, 02:01 PM)
--- End quote ---

Ouch  :D

wraith808:
I decided to try putting in "www.google.com"

Seems it worked...
 (see attachment in previous post)
-Stephen66515 (August 19, 2012, 01:34 PM)
--- End quote ---

They already removed it.

Nevermind... I saw that the links that they show are random.  Why wait until closer to 10/26 to show the whole list at one time?

jgpaiva:
Why wait until closer to 10/26 to show the whole list at one time?
-wraith808 (August 19, 2012, 02:25 PM)
--- End quote ---
I suspect that they will try to get confirmations from the people who submitted their sites to the list. At least that's what I'd do before releasing a "final" list.

superboyac:
People generally use whatever works for them. Punishing them is not an effective way to encourage  them to change. If websites just stop jumping through all those hoops they allegedly do to support older browsers, people will eventually migrate over to what works. That's how it's always worked in the past. Those people who are unwilling (or can't for technical reasons) upgrade will become a new market and income opportunity for those sites that do continue to support their browser versions.

Web developers and hosts need to get over themselves a little. This isn't the 90s any more. The web's era of the child-king webmaster and the techno-elite is largely over. The Internet has already become a commodity. And it will soon become just another public utility - no different than electricity, water, and sewage treatment. Time to get with the new reality folks!

Openness and 'come as you are' has always been the rule of the web. How is this "go dark" initiative any different from the thinking of certain governments when they propose to establish an official web access client? And are these people who propose the web "go dark" the same people protesting closed ecosystems whenever Apple and Microsoft attempt to play that game? Or who rebel against any attempt to dictate to them how they operate their websites?

If so, it's a sad state of affairs.

I can see a time in the not too distant future when I put an old school Fido BBS system on a Raspberry Pi and walk away from all this browser nonsense once and for all. And after talking to a few other folks, I now know I'm not the only one thinking about doing it.
 :-\
-40hz (August 19, 2012, 08:16 AM)
--- End quote ---
well said.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page