SitePoint Podcast #6: What to do about Internet Explorer 6

Episode 6 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Brad Williams, Patrick O’Keefe, Stephan Segraves, and Kevin Yank.

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• SitePoint Podcast #6: What to do about Internet Explorer 6 (MP3, 28.4MB)

Episode Summary

Here are the topics covered in this episode:

Blogging Community JournalSpace Wiped Out

• Hard Lessons in the Importance of Backups: JournalSpace Wiped Out (LifeHacker)
• JournalSpace Drama: All Data Lost Without Backup, Company Deadpooled (TechCrunch)
• Journalspace is no more (Journalspace)

AOL Hometown, Other Free Services Going Dark

• Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse (Jason Scott)
• Posts by Kelly Wilson at People Connection Blog (AOL Community Network)

Twitter Under Attack

• Gone Phishing (Twitter)
• Monday Morning Madness (Twitter)
• Celebrity Twitter Accounts Hacked (Bill O’Reilly, Britney Spears, Obama, More) (TechCrunch)

Kevin Rose Disappointed by User Complaints

• Kevin Rose comment on “Digg is Rigged – Video Proof” (Digg)

Main Show Topic: Internet Explorer 6

• The IE6 Equation (24 ways)
• IE6 Market Share is 20% (Market Share)
• Google tells users to drop IE6 (TG Daily)
• IE 6 Back from the Grave (Bruce Lawson)
• IE 6 Mobile Standards Compliance Tests (Bruce Lawson)
• “I won’t support IE 6 in 2009” (Ajaxian)
• IE Death March
• When Can We Stop Pandering to IE6? (atomised)
• IE6: Javascript won’t save us after all (falling leaves)

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