"You kids have it so easy these days with your fancy browsers. In my day, we had to wait 15 seconds for IE6 to start up from a cold boot, and when it finally got started, it could barely handle CSS selectors unless you stayed up all night coding around it, and it lasted 10 minutes before crashing! And we were grateful for those 10 minutes! But you couldn't wouldn't appreciate it, with your fancy SVG graphics and canvas elements. Canvas! Pfah! We never dreamed of canvas! Let me tell you about something called Flash...."
Is IE8 backwards compatible with IE6? Doesn't that hold the browser back? If someone isn't writing for IE6, does than mean IE8 won't be fully utilized?
IE7 and IE8 have an IE6 compatibility mode, which is normally not used unless the page is really broken. What's funny/sad is that "IE6 mode" is not 100% the same as IE6's rendering, so for a while web developers were afraid that they would have to support IE6, IE7, and "IE6 mode", but there was such an outcry that MS changed the defaults and it's almost never an issue in real life.
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IE6 typically takes 10 minutes - 6 hours to get things working in. Even just the act of having to make sure that things work in itself takes time.
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