Does the Telegraph web site bugger up your browser?

[RichardCranium]

Every time I follow a link to the Telegraph web site, my Internet Explorer (E6) locks up and I end up having to reboot.

No other web site causes the same problem.

Is it just me?

[Troll]

I thought all contractors used Firefox

[xoggoth]

No, but the Independent was doing a similar thing a few weeks ago. Of course I use a suitably righty sort of version on my PC and it only locks up over lefty stuff.

PS Actually, the demented Poly Toynbee aside obviously, I am starting to quite like The Guardian, often quite sensible in a liberal lefty way.

PS IE8 is better.

[Troll]

PS Actually, the demented Poly Toynbee aside obviously, I am starting to quite like The Guardian, often quite sensible in a liberal lefty way.

Wash your mouth out

[HairyArsedBloke]

Wash your mouth out

I've reported him to admin. He is a sick man.

[OwlHoot]

Every time I follow a link to the Telegraph web site, my Internet Explorer (E6) locks up and I end up having to reboot.

No other web site causes the same problem.

Is it just me?

Yes, the same thing often (but not always) happens to me when I try saving a Telegraph article in FireFox.

They have a two-minute auto-refresh on their main page and I think on other pages, no doubt to artificially boost their click rates, and it is extremely irritating and intrusive when one is trying to read something. I think this refresh may be part of the problem.

[MPwannadecentincome]

A lot of companies will not have tested their sites on older browsers now, how old is IE6?

[NickFitz]

... I am starting to quite like The Guardian, often quite sensible...

At least one person round here has begun the long journey of coming to their senses

[NickFitz]

A lot of companies will not have tested their sites on older browsers now, how old is IE6?

Old and foul and worthless, or 8 years, 3 months, 3 days if you want the facts.

Unfortunately, many big organisations are staffed by a sufficient number of incompetents to have created Intranet apps that will only work on it, and now refuse to either upgrade (because they would have to upgrade their apps) or allow other browsers to be installed alongside it for use other than with their broken apps (because somebody would then have to admit they were incompetent in committing to IE6, and allow somebody competent to be hired in their place).

Even the IE Team at MS are seriously disgruntled at this situation; unfortunately MS senior management basically shut them down after IE6, except for a skeleton crew to deal with security fixes. Then it became apparent that the browser wars were not in fact over, and they were reassembled to create newer and better browsers, and are nearly half-way there with IE8. However MS had told its big corporate clients (and let me assure you, they come a long way ahead of you when MS decides its strategy) that they could rely on IE6 being supported forever and a day, and now it's too late for MS to back down.

I know for a fact that the IE Team hate having to support that crock of tulip. One of them told me so. It's also one of the reasons he recently left the team, having been on there since IE2. His current role in Microsoft is dedicated to ensuring the company works towards operating with open standards in all its future activities regarding the web. In ten years, he may have got somewhere; but if he can't do it, MS will be dead in the water anyway by then. Somebody should tell that asshole Ballmer.

[Cowboy Bob]

My last client co pretty much stopped supporting IE6 the minute IE7 came out. OK, the site had to generally work, but graphics glitches became less important. I suspect the Telegraph has the same attitude.

IE6 is a worthless piece of tulip that should have been strangled at birth.