Nuf already with the IE6 in the business crap
You’ve probably heard already that both Digg and Youtube plan to gradually stop supporting sodding IE6. About time.
But Digg run a poll about why people kept using it and a fair amount of them said that they cannot update because they are in the office without admin rights. And their IT departments say they cannot upgrade because they have intranets or applications that only run on IE6. Ok, let’s just fix that Zárate style:
1) Write a wrapper on C++/C#/whatever around a standalone version of IE6. Name it my-crappy-app-from-the-past.exe and install it on the machines of your oompa-loompas. Tweak it so it can only navigate to your crappy intranet, no where else to go.
2) Upgrade all the machines to IE8.
3) DONE!
Honestly, is this not a valid solution? I wonder why MS doesn’t offer it themselves, I think it’s in everybody’s interest.
And MOVE ON!
July 19th, 2009 at 02:44
If you have IE8 and try do do the ActiveX wrapper of the IE6 trident engine, the render will work but you won’t be able to write on any textfield.
Don’t know why, but that’s what happens to me on several PCs