#IE6

Hugo van Kemenadehugovk
2026-02-14

We dropped support for Internet Explorer!

This was a +92 -10,723 diff!

There had been support down to IE6...

github.com/python/pythondotorg

2026-02-02

Today I have been updating (not paying!!) a Struts 1 app with Internet Explorer 6 compatible JavaScript to work on modern browsers. This continues tomorrow, and probably for a few days more. Wish me luck!!

#ie6 #java #javascript #legacyupgrades

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2026-01-08

@gordoooo_z @rl_dane well, #FrontendDevs like @fuchsiii get a kilometer stare.when you ask her to support #IE6!

2025-10-14

Gosh darn it #Safari really is the IE6 of 2025...

#iOS #MacOS #Apple #IE #Ie6

2025-02-14
@jakob 🇦🇹 ✅ @Lioh Den kann ich sogar noch über.

Jupiter Rowland wrote the following post Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:56:16 +0100

Yes, it's that bad

I've read an interesting comparison the other day: Mastodon is the Internet Explorer 6 of the Fediverse.

It's underwhelming. It's underequipped. It lacks features that are standard just about everywhere else. It's actually hopelessly outdated. In fact, it's even insecure, also due to how it lacks security features that competitors have readily available. And it ignores officially defined standards and tries hard to force the whole {Fediverse|Web} to adopt its own non-standard solutions instead.

At the same time, however, for many many users, it is the {Fediverse|Internet}, full stop.

For the vast majority of {Fediverse|Internet} users, it was the first {Fediverse project|Web browser} they came across because that's what they were mouth-fed when they started with the {Fediverse|Internet}. For quite a long time, it was the only {Fediverse project|Web browser} they even knew existed, and for many, it still is. Alternatives are only known to and used by the tech-savvy, and they're also the only ones who are aware of how dangerously lacking it is.

Thus, it has vastly more users than all its alternatives combined. Its market share is such that its developers don't even have to care for standards compatibility or what advantages the competition has. They can force their way upon everyone and everything.

Even many websites are built hard against only {Mastodon|the Internet Explorer} and malfunction or completely refuse to work with any of its alternatives, not seldomly because their developers don't even know that alternatives exist. And few developers dare to build {websites|Fediverse projects} only according to {HTML|ActivityPub} standards, even if that means breaking compatibility with {Mastodon|the IE6}.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Comparison #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #FediverseIsNotMastodon #InternetExplorer #InternetExplorer6 #IE6

(Selbst-Quote-Posten FTW! Man ist ja schreibfaul.)

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #QuotePost #QuoteTweet #QuoteToot #QuoteBoost #Fediverse #Mastodon #NichtNurMastodon #InternetExplorer #InternetExplorer6 #IE6
Paulien Lemoineanxest@piaille.fr
2025-01-28

La guerre contre #ie6 n'est jamais terminée :(

Vivement #servo

2012-01-07

Methinks, Microsoft public celebration of #IE6 demise is all about the prowess of their newer generation browsers. #WebID #Security #Privacy

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-11-16

@shaknais #InternetExplorer is #EoL anyway, so disregard it.

2011-03-04

In AU, 3.2% still uses #IE6 #ie6countdown http://bit.ly/i10XW6 That's not too bad

Home

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣youronlyone@c.im
2024-10-06

I think it was last week when a headline passed by about another Chromium-based browser integrating AI and all that. That was it. Neve saw it again. No one talked about it. No reshared.

Firefox? They got a lot of complaints, feedback, and angered so many.

My take: There are a lot of people who cares about Firefox. While most, if not all, Chromium-based browsers, their users don't care as long as they can browse.

It's like back in the #IE6 era. No one cared as long as their IE6-only website and tools works. Forget about security, privacy, the latest tech.

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-08-27

@fuchsiii @grumpygamer be glad you don't have to support #IE6 anymore...

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-05-17

@dofh_excuses People who still want #IntenetExploder [I call it that way because it's the equivalent of a cyberjihadist when confronted with HTML5 + CSS3] should not be allowed to touch anything more complex than a touchdone landline phone or a lightswitch...

#InternetExplorer #IE6 #Browsers

Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣youronlyone@c.im
2024-05-07

This is how much I hate Chromium-based browsers, I left my frustration as notes.

```
/* BGN: Dark Age (“spiritual successor of IE6”) engines like Chromium! BOO! */
@supports not (xx: xx) {

}
/* END: Dark Age (“spiritual successor of IE6”) engines like Chromium! BOO! */
```

#Chromium is the new #IE6, come back home to #Firefox!

LOL!

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2024-03-22
2024-02-26

Wochenrückblick, Ausgabe 29 (2024-08).

Diesmal mit dem Grund, warum ich mir nach vier Jahren wieder einen zweiten Monitor auf den Schreibtisch gestellt habe, der zweiten defekten Delock 11827 Schaltsteckdose (mit identischem Sympton wie bei der ersten), einem neuen Feature für Bikerouter.de bzw. BRouter-Web, der Verschwörung, die dabei half, dass wir Internet Explorer 6 losgeworden sind, mal wieder Wildschweinen im Garten, etwas Frühling und wie immer Techno.

#Schreibtisch #Monitor #Delock #SmartHome #Tasmota #Bikerouter #BRouterWeb #IE6 #InternetExplorer #Wildschwein #Garten #Frühling #Techno

marcusjaschen.de/blog/2024/202

2024-02-18
I've read an interesting comparison the other day: Mastodon is the Internet Explorer 6 of the Fediverse.

It's underwhelming. It's underequipped. It lacks features that are standard just about everywhere else. It's actually hopelessly outdated. In fact, it's even insecure, also due to how it lacks security features that competitors have readily available. And it ignores officially defined standards and tries hard to force the whole {Fediverse|Web} to adopt its own non-standard solutions instead.

At the same time, however, for many many users, it is the {Fediverse|Internet}, full stop.

For the vast majority of {Fediverse|Internet} users, it was the first {Fediverse project|Web browser} they came across because that's what they were mouth-fed when they started with the {Fediverse|Internet}. For quite a long time, it was the only {Fediverse project|Web browser} they even knew existed, and for many, it still is. Alternatives are only known to and used by the tech-savvy, and they're also the only ones who are aware of how dangerously lacking it is.

Thus, it has vastly more users than all its alternatives combined. Its market share is such that its developers don't even have to care for standards compatibility or what advantages the competition has. They can force their way upon everyone and everything.

Even many websites are built hard against only {Mastodon|the Internet Explorer} and malfunction or completely refuse to work with any of its alternatives, not seldomly because their developers don't even know that alternatives exist. And few developers dare to build {websites|Fediverse projects} only according to {HTML|ActivityPub} standards, even if that means breaking compatibility with {Mastodon|the IE6}.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Comparison #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #FediverseIsNotMastodon #InternetExplorer #InternetExplorer6 #IE6
Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣youronlyone@c.im
2024-02-08

LOL. Found another craziness with #Chromium which #Firefox got right the first time.

`@-supports selector(:lang(\*-latn)` is the only one that works in Chromium. However, none works for wildcard `:lang(\*-C)`.

Firefox accepts `(\*-latn)`, `("*-latn")`, and `("\*-latn")` for both.

Here's a sample code:
```
/**
* NOTES:
*
* @supports selector()
* - :lang(*-latn) = Firefox:no || Chromium:no
* - :lang(\*-latn) = Firefox:yes (insensitive) || Chromium:yes (insensitive)
* - :lang("*-latn") = Firefox:yes (insensitive) || Chromium:no
* - :lang("\*-latn") = Firefox:yes (insensitive) || Chromium:no
*
* :lang(C)
* - :lang(*-latn) = Firefox:no || Chromium:no
* - :lang(\*-latn) = Firefox:yes (insensitive) || Chromium:no
* - :lang("*-latn") = Firefox:yes (insensitive) || Chromium:no
* - :lang("\*-latn") = Firefox:yes (insensitive) || Chromium:no
**/
@supports selector(:lang(\*-latn)) {
:lang(\*-latn) {
color: magenta !important;
}
}
```

1. Firefox and Chromium-based browsers will pass the `@supports selector` check.
2. However, only Firefox will process `:lang(\*-latn)`. To this day, Chromium doesn't support wildcard `:lang(\*-latn)`.

To ensure Chromium-based browsers gets filtered out, use:

```
@supports selector(:lang("\*-latn"))
```

Chromium doesn't know what to do with the wildcard `:lang(\*-C)` selector. It supports one method in `@supports selector()` but not none in `:lang(C)`. The lack of wildcard support in `:lang(C)` selector has been that way for years as well.

#Mozilla Firefox devs really know what they're doing to make the #web better. While Chromium is proving to be the new #IE6, holding us back.

(P.S. I stopped filing bugs to Chromium years ago because they love to shut down people with “no one uses it” and “there's a workaround” so “not fixing”. Why even bother if that's their culture?)

#webdev #CSS

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