{"id":557,"date":"2010-01-18T20:53:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T19:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2010-10-29T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T12:06:27","slug":"the-joys-of-ie6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/the-joys-of-ie6\/","title":{"rendered":"The joys of IE6"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/ie6.jpg\" class=\"right\" alt=\"IE6 logo\" title=\"IE6 logo\" width=\"174\" height=\"56\"\/>\r\n<p>Find myself in an interesting situation at the moment &#8211; enforced usage of IE6 at work. Good reasons for this of course, one application used in this organisation will only work with IE6. Quite a common situation.<\/p> \r\n\r\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is what doesn&#8217;t work in IE6 &#8211; including two websites for web design agencies I was looking at last week. One of these actually said that their site didn&#8217;t work in IE6 and told me to upgrade my browser (I can&#8217;t), and the other one just broke (badly) in IE6. Another different site I viewed on the same day used transparent pngs, which aren&#8217;t natively supported by IE6. Update: Found another two web design agencies whose pages break in IE6 this week &#8211; and these were New Media Age Top 100 agencies as well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Although I use IE6 at home, I use it exclusively for testing websites I&#8217;ve built to make sure they&#8217;re OK, so don&#8217;t normally come across so many issues. <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Personally, at the moment, much as I&#8217;d like to ignore IE6, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s acceptable to do so. Excluding people using IE6 from using your website is equivalent to saying, in UK terms, that it&#8217;s unavailable in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Or, in US terms, unavailable to most of the people in California.<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find myself in an interesting situation at the moment &#8211; enforced usage of IE6 at work. Good reasons for this of course, one application used in this organisation will only work with IE6. Quite a common situation. What&#8217;s interesting is what doesn&#8217;t work in IE6 &#8211; including two websites for web design agencies I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,16,17],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-design-and-build","tag-browsers","tag-ie6","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonbattersby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}