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Encore utilisé par 19% d’internautes, Internet Explorer 6 a la vie dure. Tenant compte du fait qu’il est encore assez répandu dans l’environnement professionnel, Microsoft va en assurer la maintenance jusqu’en 2014. :-(

Mon titre est un peu accrocheur et inexact mais il témoigne d’un mouvement d’origine norvégienne de ras-le-bol généralisé vis-à-vis d’Internet Explorer 6, le navigateur de Microsoft véritable cauchemar vivant de tout webmaster un tant soit peu respectueux des standards.

To give you some perspective, in 1996… * Google.com didn’t exist yet. * In January 1996 there were only 100,000 websites, compared to more than 160 million in 2008. * The web browser of choice was Netscape Navigator, followed by Microsoft Internet Explorer as a distant second (Microsoft launched IE 3 in 1996). * Most people used dial-up Internet connections with mighty speeds ranging from 28.8Kbps to 34.4Kbps. Highly modern 56Kbps modems would arrive in 1997. * People had only recently started to switch from 640×480 to 800×600 screen resolutions.

Although Beta 2 of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 isn’t due out until some time in August, Microsoft is cautioning Web site owners now that they need to be prepping now for possible problems the new, more standards-compliant browser may cause. As part of this week’s IE June Security Update for IE8 Beta 1, Microsoft introduced a new tag, “IE EmulateIE7″ — which it is counting on to head off some of the incompatibilities the company is anticipating could occur, based on feedback it received from IE 8 Beta 1 testers. Bon courage à tous les développeurs web !

IE 7 is now avalaible