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by coldtea
4075 days ago
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>It's analogous to why we as a web developer community suffered overall by 'supporting' IE6 with crazy fallbacks instead of just saying no. The reason the "web developer community suffered overall by 'supporting' IE6" is because people wont and dont update their "broken sites". That's a pipe dream. Some are abandoned, others are maintained by amateurs who don't know what they're doing, others don't care, etc. Users still want to be able to read them, and will switch to a browser that does, if yours doesn't. Unless you control all competitors and can co-ordinate a mass update, you better support them. |
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I meant that we wasted a lot of effort building IE6-proof sites in recent years. My analogy itself had nothing to do with updating sites. I was trying to give an example of a 'crazy web workaround' that screwed us over in the long-term.
But if we forget analogies and I address your actual claim that:
> [...] people wont and dont update their "broken sites".
We're talking about major sites here (like Reddit) where this is clearly not true as most have updated already. Reddit is something of an exception, though they are clearly working on it as the commenter that linked to the beta `m.reddit.com` has shown.