Gooseneck Gazette

Internet Explorer 9 - For Better or Worse

Microsoft’s MIX10 Con­fer­ence for Design­ers and Devel­op­ers is tak­ing place and today they announced the lat­est infor­ma­tion for Inter­net Explorer 9. So far it looks like it will be boast­ing increased Javascript per­for­mance, stan­dards com­pli­ance, and improved font ren­der­ing. Finally, Microsoft is catch­ing up to its com­peti­tors — Apple, Google, Mozilla and Opera. Inter­net Explorer 9 will cer­tainly make life a lot eas­ier for web geeks everywhere.

That’s Great! But…

I’ve got to say there’s still a caveat with this announce­ment. Cor­po­ra­tions are NOT going to give up their pre­cious IE6. Far too many com­pa­nies have invested resources in build­ing cus­tom appli­ca­tions that work only in IE6 and it’s unlikely they will shift from this line of think­ing. Despite the fact that every web designer/developer’s bane of exis­tence known as IE6 is dwin­dling in mar­ket share, it still occu­pies a for­mi­da­ble per­cent­age. And one that I doubt is going any­where soon, despite what we all wish.

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