Re: Internet Explorer 6 on Debian Unstable
Hehe.. in all fairness, it's just because we hired some new guy who
now has the windows box I used to use for testing. Oh, and because I
think it'd be hilarious to run IE6 on Linux. Just... well, if you
don't see the humor in that, I'm not explaining it. :)
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:49:48 -0400, Paul Galbraith
<paul@paulgalbraith.net> wrote:
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> Mike Ward wrote:
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> > Thanks for al the suggestions everyone, I'll play with it a bit.
> >
> > Also, for the record, I'm not trying this because I'm designing for IE
> > or because I want to browse in IE, but because I know that 95% of the
> > people that log into our site use IE, and it'd be stupid and neglegent
> > to not test at all in IE. Even on windows I use FireFox exclusively.
> >
> > I mean, come on. Like I said, this feels like a mortal sin or something ;)
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> Please! if you're like anyone I know, you have a job that you do to
> support yourself and your family. Most jobs require that you deal with
> reality, and if your job is developing web applications, then the
> reality you must deal with is that your primary browser target is almost
> certainly to be IE6, and that's what you need to be testing with!
>
> Whiners who don't like this situation (and insist that we use
> <whiners-favourite-browser> instead of IE) can feel free to:
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> (a) change the browser/OS that most people in the world use and report
> back to me with evidence of their success,
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> (b) find me a new job that I find acceptable, or
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> (c) KMA.
>
> In the meantime, Mike, please don't apologize for being level-headed!
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> Paul
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