re: IE6 being phased out at Google
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
jack hall wrote:
|So now what ???
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Opera or Firefox or SeaMonkey or K-Meleon[1] or ....
Wanna see what's **really** available out there? This will boot to a desktop
(if your hardware has has enough horsepower and supports booting to a CD).
cache
of
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Ultimate-Debian-LiveCD-i686-54010.shtml
|The best operating system 98SE
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LOL. You mean the one with ZERO security.
...and the one you can't find device drivers for any more.
...and the OS you still can't get legally for free
--even though it was declared dead by its vendor over 3 years ago.
|The best browser I.E. 6
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Not even close.
cache
of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acid3
Note also how poorly IE7 and IE8 do.
Scroll down a bit and contrast that with other browsers.
That was Acid THREE.
Your browser even does poorly on Acid TWO
(where any *modern* browser[2] passes).
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html
Why the Acid Tests exist:
cache
of http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2
It must be that you never go to a Web page of ANY complexity.
...or you're just satisfied with junky rendering.
...or developers have bent over backwards to accomodate your junky browser.
THOSE DAYS ARE OFFICIALLY OVER.
In addition, the crappy security of IE (any variant) has been noted by CERT
(the US Government's computer security experts):
cache
of http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878
CERT says to use ANY other browser.
|I'm stunned !!!
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There are none so blind as those who will not see.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1235187499
[1] K-Meleon is Windoze-only, so it won't be on that bootable CD.
IceWeasel==Firefox with the trademarks & proprietary artwork removed.
IceApe==SeaMonkey with the trademarks & proprietary artwork removed.
(A SeaMonkey ISN'T a simian; it's a brine shrimp.)
[2] "*Modern* browser" excludes IE7, BTW, as it doesn't pass Acid2.
...not that IE7 and IE8 haven't been purposely crippled by M$
so that they won't run under Win9x anyway.
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