Dropping IE6 Support; What Do We Gain? ... HTML / CSS / JavaScript Functionality & Techniques -


The web development community is at the tip of the tip to support Internet Explorer 6 - even Microsoft is counting its demise!

This raises a very interesting question ... What advantage do we have?

We have been weighed by the ball and the series which IE6 is so long that with IE 7 as the new baseline for backward compatibility, all the good stuff Which we have neglected expect us from our browsers? For example, I'm actually CSS chained class .

  .class1.class2.class3 {background: #fff; } & Lt; Div class = "class1 class2 class3" & gt; & Lt; P & gt; Content Here & Lt; / P & gt; & Lt; / Div & gt;   

PS was inspired by this question. Web developer approach from

, surprisingly very little in the way of additional functionality, is present in many other browsers The standard API is still missing. In IE7, the benefits of many small improvements in the IE7 are higher compared to IE 6.

  • Better but incomplete PNG transparency support
  • Local XMLHttpRequest (Not useful: ActiveX is still required for file: url)
  • Fix some CSS layout
  • Better CSS support as stated in the article

    There are some things that are available in IE 6 and 7 Intermediate improvements:

    • JScript engine is still very slow compared to modern browsers, offered by JSCRip API Mozilla A has not missed many ways that were copied to other browsers and later standardized, and Jascript retains many sperms and bugs
    • Many CSS layout problems still exist
    • Some new CSS bugs have been started

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