Internet Explorer is evil (1996)

Re:Internet Explorer is evil (1996) by TimTheTinker on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:55PM (#26402300)

For better or for worse, IE6 lived on, and on, and on for far too long with no changes.

A bigger concern than the changing standards mode in other browsers was the fact that IE6 just wouldn’t die.

I had people challenging me “why are you developing for Firefox first and then adapting your app to work on IE? Shouldn’t you be doing it the other way around?” Over 10 years later those apps I built are still working great on the latest browsers, with no layout fixes since then. Meanwhile, many of those “rich”, forward-thinking apps developed for IE and Silverlight are long dead.

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Re:Internet Explorer is evil (1996) by OliverJones on Sunday March 21, 2021 @09:06PM (#26535723)

Right. In hospitals there was a very popular medical imaging web information system, GE, Maybe? It rendered with an ActiveX control embedded in IE6. It didn't work in IE7.

So a lot of customers I worked with couldn't move past IE6. "No way, everybody need to be able to see those XRays images."

We even tried, without success, to organize the quick development of some sort of replacement for that, umm, "legacy" ActiveX control.

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