compatibility with IE6 on windows

John Abbott fewclues at gmail.com
Fri Oct 31 21:28:37 GMT 2008



On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:38 -0400, Denver Gingerich wrote:

> It is very unwise to drop support for Internet Explorer 6 on the
> Ubuntu web site.  A major goal of Ubuntu is to reach out to Windows
> users.  People viewing the Ubuntu site in IE6 will go away thinking
> "Ubuntu sucks" because it doesn't look nice in their browser.  These
> same people often don't know what a web browser is, let alone that
> they are using IE6.


I am in total agreement with Denver on this.  I know how infuriated I
get when I am told that I need to use IE6 or IE7 to view a site.  I
generally write the site off because there is no way I'm going to
install IEanything. 
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