(Untitled)- July 5, 2008 Nosredna on Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008: IE6 eats about half my time, either directly or in coming up with solutions that accommodate it. To me, that means that the whole web will get better fast if we can stop supporting IE6. IE7 finally passed up IE6 on the w3c stats (as of June). It seems like the moment is right to move people up out of IE6. It&39;s going to happen. Even my local newspaper&39;s website has stopped working with IE6. They..http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/4/signals/#c39630 (Untitled)- July 4, 2008 Shelley on Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008: To Tom Coady, I don&39;t see this as spite. At some point in time we have to say, move on folks, there are better options. Just because Microsoft orphaned the browser doesn&39;t mean we have to stop to take care of it.http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/4/signals/#c39629 (Untitled)- July 4, 2008 Simon Willison on quipt: Excellent point - I&39;d been trying to think of a way round this but I missed that really obvious one. Crazy as it sounds, one way you could get this working would be with publicprivate key cryptography - sign the JavaScript that gets cached in window.name with your private key, then have the JavaScript on the page check the signature with a public key. Unfortunately I imagine the size needed for a full RSA implementation in JavaScript would completely kill the speed.http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/4/quipt/#c39628 (Untitled)- July 4, 2008 Jesse Ruderman on quipt: That sounds really fragile. If an attacker sets window.name, then links to a page on your site that doesn&39;t run this script, I think it will be compromised when the user clicks a link to a page on the site that does use the script. It won&39;t work between tabs, so it&39;s not as effective as localStorage. And browser developers might limit the length of window.name in the future.http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/4/quipt/#c39626 (Untitled)- July 4, 2008 erlando on Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008: Good move. We need others to follow to force late adopters of IE7FF to get with the program.http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/4/signals/#c39621 |