Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022

Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by munk-a on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:42PM (#27214869)

I have a version of myself aged in their twenties and working in web development that really wants to stab anyone believing that IE6 was the best browser.

I won't argue that it wasn't decent at launch, but MS kept support for that browser around way too long and failed to actually roll out support for new features that customers desired. I believe it was the era of IE6 specifically that led to the proliferation of top-right-corner.jpg which was an absolute abomination.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by Rodeoclash on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:09PM (#27215173)

Compared to IE5 and Netscape Navigator 4, it was a great browser!

The issue was the length of time that it stuck around for.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by detritus on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:53PM (#27215003)

Oh, don't get me wrong - it was a Trojan Horse, and my first ever web browsing experience was on Navigator, so it was a hard-hearted appreciation at the time.

But from my stand point then, It Just Worked.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by ido on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:01AM (#27217239)

Same for me - I started browsing the web on Mosaic and quickly switched to Netscape. I hung on during the Netscape 4.x days but at some point couldn't deny how much better IE was (I think maybe even IE 4 was already as good or better than Netscape).

I switched to IE until the Mozilla suit released and later on switched to Firefox 0.something - it was amazing how fast it was compared to both IE6 and Mozilla.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by dotancohen on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:05PM (#27224791)

Some time around 2001 or 2002 I bought Opera (with tabs!) and that just made the internet usable.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by claviska on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:15PM (#27216314)

IE6 almost made me quit web development once it grew stagnant. It was put on the back burner at some point and they rested on their laurels until Firefox started eating IE’s market share.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by jp555 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:43AM (#27219518)

As a web developer, I might have billed 3x more hours thanks to IE 6. :P

I hated it but it made me a lot of money for many years, mostly thanks to governments requiring IE 6 support. LOL

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