yeah, make an official no-support date. That would be great- it would help with the whole IE6 problem. It needs to be phased out, yet I know many companies that still haven't upgraded to IE7 yet! That's a big security problem as well as being a headache for all of us... 2008/9/11 Colin Guthrie <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Ross McKay wrote: > >> Michael McGlothlin wrote: >> >> [...] I think web developers should look into a class action case against >>> Microsoft for failing to make their browser standards compliant - it sure >>> costs us a lot extra in development time. :p >>> >> >> Let me know where the PayPal donate button is... DW & I are fed up with >> having to find nasty kludges for IE6 every time we build a website! >> > > I think by the changing shape of the web, all browsers should have a sunset > date in there beyond which they do not operate (either that or open a nag > screen on every page load that is impossible to turn off (other than with a > low level hack/patch to the binary - or obviously just a comment/recompile > in open source ones!)). > > It should be respected that browsers go out of date and beyond that time > *noone* supports them, not their authors or the web developing public. > > Col > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Luke Slater
