Li Gong: China’s Strange Fixation on IE6 – Tech-Web

blog.mozilla.com — Tons of websites, including commonly used ones, have been constructed and tested to work with IE6 only, without consideration of web standard (W3C), non-IE browsers (Firefox), or non-Windows platforms (Mac OS X, Linux). This proliferation of non-standard websites is partly the result of ignorance. Remember the recent Green Dam fiasco? Green Dam was designed to block undesirable websites, but it only works if you access the web with IE. If you use Firefox, Green Dam has no effect.

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Alex 2 years 2 weeks ago

I find bizarre that an administration so incompetent as to put out the Green Dam software could have done any widespread hacking.

I loved this bit:

"As a result, the Internet in China is stuck in an IE6 tar pit. Exhibit A is really ironic. Recall the latest push to have all website owners in China to register? Well, the registration website at MIIT (the ministry in charge) is IE6 only. Without IE6, you cannot file your registration information."

Ryan 2 years 2 weeks ago

Hilarious. As a designer, I hit this virtually every day. While the rest of the design community (and world at large) moves away from support for IE6, it is still essential for anyone with an eye on Chinese Web visitors. Pain. In. My. Ass.

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