[Web4lib] re: Getting Rid of IE 6

[Walker, David]

> Interactive web aps. bump up against IE6 limitations all the time

I'll put in a good word here for using the Yahoo CSS Grids framework [1] and any Javascript framework of your choice [2].  These things exists precisely to make the goal of cross-browser design and functionality easy.

I've designed a number of website with Yahoo Grids and Prototype, using complex layouts and AJAXy functionality (about as complex as for any library application), and am always amazed at how well it looks and behaves in IE 6 without a single line of code on my part to accommodate it.  

--Dave

[1] http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/

[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+framework

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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding [tim at librarything.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 8:39 PM
To: Robert Malesko
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] re: Getting Rid of IE 6

> I'd like to second Lisa's perspective. Firefox's user agent add-on is a direct response to exactly this kind of ostensibly well-intended but overly paternalistic design. Just because you don't support a browser doesn't mean your site might not be at least functional *enough* on that browser for a user's purpose.

Well, it depends. Most library websites are basically "brochures," not
complex web aps, but OPACs are—or at least should be—more ap-like.
Interactive web aps. bump up against IE6 limitations all the time.
There aren't many library programmers as competent as the GMail team,
but GMail didn't start working with IE6 until 2007, three years after
the product was created, and it required losing functionality and
pushing Microsoft to release a JavaScript patch—not something most
libraries can do.

Tim


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