I hope the title of this thread is not true, but I suspect it definitely is. IE6 is a thorn in most of our sides. However, a lot of recent things I've read about IE8 has made me believe this. When IE6 corporate users finally upgrade, chances are they will shoot straight for IE8, not IE7. IE7 users won't have many reasons to stay with IE7, because IE8 can be made to imitate IE7 if wanted, and will have the more advanced IE8 when needed.

I don't expect IE7 to just die immediately, however, so the fact that IE8 can switch to IE7 mode is actually kind of nice for us developers: IE8 Developers Tools (included automatically with IE8).

the day ie6 finally disappears i will throw a big party and buy a round for everyone.........

Originally Posted by shonkyboy

the day ie6 finally disappears i will throw a big party and buy a round for everyone.........

That would cost you... approximately 1.3 billion dollars.

- Steve

If the installation for IE8 would just DELETE all previous versions of IE, that would solve a lot of problems for us !

Originally Posted by LadynRed

If the installation for IE8 would just DELETE all previous versions of IE, that would solve a lot of problems for us !

Yes, and then delete itself also, for good measure.

Well.. if IE8 is as they promised - standards compliant (or close to it), then it won't be the nightmare of it's predecessors. I still won't use it as my primary brower