January 30th, 2011

IE 6 / 7 / 8 bad performance?

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When you start developing complex enterprise applications using GWT, you can run into the problem that IE does not perform quite well with too much JavaScript.

Many companies are still stuck in – IMHO – the most successfull vendor-version lock-in web history. Ever heard this?

I cannot upgrade IE in our company because of [...]

February 8th, 2010

Atlassian dropping IE 6 support

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I found this one here in the atlassian forums, unfortunately the link posted there is broken.

Hi guys,

We are announcing our end of life of Atlassian support for Internet Explorer 6 on JIRA.

This will be effective from the launch date of JIRA 4.2 (target Q3, 2010). This means that JIRA 4.1 will [...]

February 8th, 2010

IE 6 death march

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This year is a great year for web development. We will witness the “end of life” of IE 6. And as far as I got it right from here, IE 7 is being trashed on the same day:

13-Jul-2010 Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP Professional Service Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Professional

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