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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I remember reading in a news article that the U.S. Government actually warned against IE6 once. I was at this hotel where the public computers operated in the following manner, which I have written in the style of some funny but likely obscure "Super Smash Bros. Melee -- Final Destination" comics I once read. [ulist] Let's go use a public computer. But wait! No operating system! No programs! No features! IE6. [/ulist] Basically, it was a very heavily modified Windows XP, with IE6 as the only program. Only the first IE6 window could right-click, and options like "Properties" were removed -- I couldn't even copy a freaking link address! Visually, it was barely recognizable -- I guess that's a good thing, it looked [i]a bit[/i] nicer. Every so often, it crashed for no reason (I think they wrapped a program around IE6 to facilitate the modification, which could easily increase the instability), prompting the entire screen to be replaced by some tan "desktop lock" (that's right, there wasn't even a desktop) before another IE6 window popped up, with (of course) no crash recovery. I found the company's website; as it turns out, this setup was a service they offered to a fairly large number of hotels, so I opened up Gmail, spent an hour looking for links, and sent them a polite message telling them why they should at least upgrade to IE7, if not Firefox (which would be more easily modified). Of the many links, I think at least 15 were incredibly easy ways to crash IE6 on page load, and another was a news article on the U.S. Gov's warning. There were also links about IE6's poor track record for web standards and support for new web technologies, and eloquent explanations on why standards and technologies support is important to web developers, web users, and (therefore) public computer suppliers. ---------------------- [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/30926][img]http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/268/cellu.gif[/img][/url][url=http://davidjcobb.deviantart.com/][img]http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/428/24464470.gif[/img][/url][url=http://getfirefox.com/][img]http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6336/25338231.gif[/img][/url][img]http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2163/end.gif[/img] Loading...
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