Comments on: There is no defense for IE6. http://comments.deasil.com/2009/04/17/there-is-no-defense-for-ie6/ escape colon w q Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:30:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: robdiana http://comments.deasil.com/2009/04/17/there-is-no-defense-for-ie6/comment-page-1/#comment-14696 robdiana Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:49:16 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/?p=2241#comment-14696 The problem I have with this IE6 is still supported by companies is that IE6 is ancient in technology terms. Granted, anything over 3 years old is ancient in our world. We wasted 2 man-months of time trying to get a new release of an application to work in IE6. Besides the fact that IE6 gleefully ignores standards, the javascript engine is painfully slow.<br><br>The main reason I have heard for people/corporations not upgrading is that they have some application (typically something like enterprisey like SAP) that uses ActiveX controls in some way that will not work in IE7. The reason these ActiveX controls do not work in IE7 is that the old controls were taking advantage of the many security holes that Microsoft plugged in later releases. The problem I have with this IE6 is still supported by companies is that IE6 is ancient in technology terms. Granted, anything over 3 years old is ancient in our world. We wasted 2 man-months of time trying to get a new release of an application to work in IE6. Besides the fact that IE6 gleefully ignores standards, the javascript engine is painfully slow.

The main reason I have heard for people/corporations not upgrading is that they have some application (typically something like enterprisey like SAP) that uses ActiveX controls in some way that will not work in IE7. The reason these ActiveX controls do not work in IE7 is that the old controls were taking advantage of the many security holes that Microsoft plugged in later releases.

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