On Sep 11, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
Lester Caine wrote:
MOST of my council customers only have IE6 on their networks
although I was asked the question 'Does it run on IE7' only
recently. To which the answer is 'Yes - but all the font sizes are
too big!' Since the cost of replacing several thousand computers at
each council to ones that could RUN XP is excessive and the current
systems work fine then why should they upgrade? The cost will come
out of OUR pockets at some point :(
Why do they need to upgrade the whole OS just to upgrade a browser
who's sunset date has been reached?
There are enough open source browsers out there that you can get a
modern, standards compliant browser on older hardware without any
problem.
If this date was built in from the start and was well known, there
wouldn't be any problem. It's just trying to retrofit now that
people start to think that it's a problem (and due to the general
reluctance to keep prop. web apps up-to-date with modern browsers,
this is partially correct, but like I say, if this was all known up
front, these issues would all have been dealt with!)
It also would have taken care of the people who wrote the webapps that
were specific to certain software. I know large companies on their
intranets have systems that only work with IE 6 which they spent a ton
of money developing...
It sucks but it's the truth... I say make sure you write to open web
standards and the entire internet will be better off :)
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Jason Pruim
Raoset Inc.
Technology Manager
MQC Specialist
11287 James St
Holland, MI 49424
www.raoset.com
japruim@xxxxxxxxxx
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