Re:Beat the IE6 wolf!
by derefr on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @05:46AM
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People understand the Moore's-law-kind-of-"old" better than you think, if you give them the right analogy.
"Remember what Playstation 1 games looked like? A few scant polygons and textures were all the hardware could manage. Your browser is as old as a PS1.† Websites have gotten better, stronger, faster, and more technologic since 2001, but you can't see any of that—because you're trying to view them in a browser built on the expectation that the most complicated thing the Internet had in store for it was shopping carts. Get a new browser, and see what the last 10 years of progress have let us create."
"Remember what Playstation 1 games looked like? A few scant polygons and textures were all the hardware could manage. Your browser is as old as a PS1.† Websites have gotten better, stronger, faster, and more technologic since 2001, but you can't see any of that—because you're trying to view them in a browser built on the expectation that the most complicated thing the Internet had in store for it was shopping carts. Get a new browser, and see what the last 10 years of progress have let us create."
† At the tail-end of its lifespan—but still.