Upgrade your Explorer
Upgrade your Internet Explorer installation, IE 7 has gone Gold!
I've envisioned the transition from IE6 to 7 many times over the last few months. Seriously, it's a big deal. It is process that must be done as quickly and efficiently, and with as much noise as possible. That means spreading the word, and even doing some hands on grunt work with everyone and anyone's PC that I can get my hands on. It means complaining, loudly, about sites which don't work in it. This is not going to be a PHP 5 type of adoption. We as a generation can't endure that.
I will support IE 6 only to the point of what is convenient (If I can't run them in parrallel, then I'm most certainly not going to uninstall multiple times a day). I will not be fixing IE6 css/javascript bugs ever again. Ever ... unless a client has ... no Terrill, never.
Nov 30, -0001
3:00 am
I will develop and supply work-arounds for Internet Explorer 6 if clients pay me well to do so (I do need to eat), but this business of bending over backwards to make everything work with *OLD, REPLACED VERSIONS* of *FREE* software already feels ridiculous. I do not even like being held back by the substandard CSS support in IE 7, so for my own Web sites, I am not inclined to develop work-arounds for *TWO* versions of IE; I am tempted to either let IE 6 break content as it will or refuse to serve any of it to any old version of IE.I can understand people not wanting to upgrade to Windows Vista with its apparently gamer- and enthusiast-unfriendly license, but I think IE users who can run IE 7 should do so even if it means upgrading their old Windows 2000 installations to Windows XP. Furthermore, I think IE users who cannot run IE 7 because they need to run particular applications that do not work properly under IE 7 or because they are restricted to organization-approved software installations should step up and do what they can to effect positive change. Of course, people who have already been inclined to work toward positive change in browser installations have probably already tried to shift away from the very, very, very outdated IE 6, but petitioning for an update may be more successful than petitioning for a change to a different application altogether.