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Why do people still use XP?

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My problem with Windows XP (and support thereof) is that it's a ten-year-old piece of software!
And it comes with IE6 as the default browser. Paah!

While I think http://html5forxp.com/ is a nice idea, I strongly believe that people using IE6 on dear old Win XP don't care about fancy webapps.

The reasoning I hear most often as to why IE6 still holds market share is that there are a lot of people at work that need to use IE6 for legacy resons. Well, if they're at work, why should we cater our super-cool new webapp to them, eh? They should be working! And if they're into casual browsing on their lunch break, they can use a normal browser to visit the cool sites.

I'm not saying Leave those bastards in the dark. I'm merely suggesting we give them a streamlined, dumbed down version of the site/app. A version that requires way less work than making sure your site runs the same in all browsers, including freaking Netscape 4.

Also, check this out: http://ie6countdown.com/

jQuery and Large Apps

There's this trend going about on the internet: people are saying that jQuery is not suitable for large appliations.

Now that's some discovery, you experts!

jQuery was never meant to be used in Javascript intense applications. It does not even make sense since it's a freaking DOM Manipulation Library (not even a framework, that is).

So, to the experts bashing jQuery like this, especially the ones speaking out of experience: why would you want to light a fire with a snowball? Also, is it the snowball's fault, or your own dumb-ass' fault for even trying?

Go chew on that and blog you!