I felt my office vibrating this morning but I soon realized it must be reverberations of the collective sigh of web developers all across the globe following Google's announcement of dropping support for IE6. Apparently the French and German governments are "[advising] citizens to switch to a different browser until the IE6 issue had been resolved" according to at least one source. I find that quite absurd considering the implication that someone might install a different browser and then switch back to "good old" IE6 ;)
It's depressing to note that IE6 still comprises about 9% of the browser market; so a web developer still has to fret over writing workarounds to account for about 1 out of 10 of their users. Out of all the theories I've heard over why people still use this browser (dating back to 2001), the legacy corporate Intranet one is the most convincing. I always new in my heart of hearts that ActiveX for the most part was a bad idea.
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