The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for displaying web pages

Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by freedompeace on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:12AM (#3145570)

For a well-designed website, I must say, I'm a bit worried.

> The cooperation takes place by our Group Business Platform using current security standards and ciphering methods. A secure data interchange has high priority!

Because that's all there is to security.

> All data is transferred with a 128 Bit SSL coding and are even secured by your log in on our Group Business Platform. This ciphering method is used in all areas of the platform and is added with further certificates.

I didn't realise we could code in SSL.

> The Volkswagen Group is using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 as standard the for displaying web pages. For the daily work with our platform, we recommend you to use the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, too.

IE6 ftw!

> By using the current version and the updates provided by Microsoft we guarantee you a secure connection.

I must have been living under a rock; I thought that it was because Internet Explorer was so insecure that I get patches every week for it. Oh, but then again, those were security issues with the rendering, not the connection. It must be the connection that is so important!

> For security reasons, the Volkswagen Group does not recommend other browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Netscape etc. as they show security gaps.

Oh. Okay. I understand.

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by Vivtek on Sunday October 23, 2011 @08:48AM (#3145990)

Wow, that translation is really crappy. "The cooperation takes place by" is a dead giveaway that it was translated from German by somebody who'd never heard that you should reword things a little in English. I used to churn out this kind of text, back when I'd just started translation.

"Coding" is also a mistranslation, fwiw; should be "encoding". I like the number mismatch in that same sentence - data "is" transferred but "are" secured. For computer applications you normally go with data as a mass noun (always singular, like water or corn), but you definitely should be consistent with your choice.

Ugh. This whole thing is causing me bad proofreading flashbacks. I'm leaving.

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by brazzy on Monday October 24, 2011 @07:48AM (#3149192)

The funny thing is that the German version reads like it was badly translated from English...

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by 5hoom on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:40AM (#3145622)

You forgot this bit in the technical requirements:

-PC or MAC with internet connection

-Web Browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is recommended)

So... they mean a (pretty old) PC with internet connection then?

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by DanBC on Sunday October 23, 2011 @06:10AM (#3145729)

There was an IE for Unix. So there's some HPUX boxes that could have been running some version of IE. I have no idea what version it got to. I have never met anyone who used it.

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by tommi on Sunday October 23, 2011 @07:26AM (#3145846)

Thanks for the info, didn't know that.

According to wikipedia, the project was discontinued as late as 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by eropple on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:45AM (#3145631)

Hey now, there's Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac. Supports high-quality (broken) CSS1, y'know.

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by 5hoom on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:48AM (#3145633)

I stand corrected and humbly defer to your knowledge of horrible browsers ;)

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by chc on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:48AM (#3145634)

Not IE 6. Mac stopped at 5.something.

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by p4bl0 on Sunday October 23, 2011 @05:01AM (#3145655)

Yup, but I remember IE 5.2 on Mac being a little better wrt. the w3c standards than IE 6 on windows, so I guess the version numbers weren't really comparable.

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by chc on Sunday October 23, 2011 @05:33AM (#3145695)

It was better in some ways, but IIRC the box model was the brokenest thing ever.

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by freedompeace on Sunday October 23, 2011 @05:11AM (#3145670)

Don't worry! It's an industry-wide standard (apparently).

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by tsotha on Sunday October 23, 2011 @09:19PM (#3147888)

It's a good thing they require an internet connection. Because otherwise, you know... chaos.

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Re:The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for display... by dextorious on Sunday October 23, 2011 @08:06AM (#3145911)

While I agree (and laughed) with most of your comment, this is incorrect:

> I didn't realise we could code in SSL.

"Coding" does not solely mean "programming", it also has the meaning of "encoding" in general.

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